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.
TERENCE MCKENNAIt’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it’s not necessarily some kind of ‘Be Here Now’ feel-good thing because it doesn’t always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It’s primary.
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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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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
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We are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
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We are told No, you’re unimportant, you’re peripheral – get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you’re a player.
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The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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