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.
TERENCE MCKENNABeauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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If you actually look at the etymology of the word ‘hallucination’, what it’s come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That’s the meaning of ‘hallucination’, to wander in the mind.
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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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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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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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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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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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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
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You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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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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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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