No one knows enough to worry.
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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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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You don’t even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
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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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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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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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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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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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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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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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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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