You’re immortal as long as you live.
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 message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news.
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What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
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You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
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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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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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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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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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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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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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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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The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
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