The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
TERENCE MCKENNAAlcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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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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To realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
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Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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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.
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It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
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For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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Reality is made of words.
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