Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
TERENCE MCKENNANobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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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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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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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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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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You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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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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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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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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I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can’t have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.
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One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
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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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