Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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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We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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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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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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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 tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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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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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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You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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