If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
TERENCE MCKENNAWho is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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We’ve painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare – triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights – or a leap to an entirely different level. We’ve taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.
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Reality is made of words.
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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
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You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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