Worrying is betting against yourself.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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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 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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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
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The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it’s not treated – if there’s not pharmacological intervention – it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.
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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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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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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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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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