Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
TERENCE MCKENNAI think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
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Reality is made of words.
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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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Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up 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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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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Don’t worry. You don’t know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin’ out loud. It’s a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.
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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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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 tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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