The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
TERENCE MCKENNAShamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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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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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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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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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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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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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else’s being you can’t be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism.
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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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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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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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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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