If you actually look at the etymology of the word ‘hallucination’, what it’s come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That’s the meaning of ‘hallucination’, to wander in the mind.
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More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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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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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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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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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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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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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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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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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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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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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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