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.
TERENCE MCKENNAIf the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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To realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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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’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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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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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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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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I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
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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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The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
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I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
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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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