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.
TERENCE MCKENNAAnd what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
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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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We’ve painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare – triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights – or a leap to an entirely different level. We’ve taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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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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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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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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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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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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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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