The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
TERENCE MCKENNANature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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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 apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
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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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The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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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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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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Reality is made of words.
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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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This is the message of your life and my life – it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children – nothing lasts.
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