The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe surface of things is not where attention should rest.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
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The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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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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This 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.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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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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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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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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The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.
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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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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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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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