There is no knowledge without risk taking.
TERENCE MCKENNAHow do we fight back? By creating art.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
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What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
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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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It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
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We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
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