Worrying is betting against yourself.
TERENCE MCKENNAThis is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else’s being you can’t be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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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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Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.
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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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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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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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Reality is made of words.
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