Worrying is betting against yourself.
TERENCE MCKENNAWe are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it’s not treated – if there’s not pharmacological intervention – it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.
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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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If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
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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.
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We are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
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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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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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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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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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This is the message of your life and my life – it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children – nothing lasts.
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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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