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.
TERENCE MCKENNANature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it’s not necessarily some kind of ‘Be Here Now’ feel-good thing because it doesn’t always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It’s primary.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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We’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.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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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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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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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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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.
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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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