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.
TERENCE MCKENNAIt’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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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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The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it’s not treated – if there’s not pharmacological intervention – it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.
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These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
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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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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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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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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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