Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
TERENCE MCKENNAWe’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.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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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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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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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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To realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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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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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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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
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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 civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
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