It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
TERENCE MCKENNAWhen you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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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 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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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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Reality is made of words.
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For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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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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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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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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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 surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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