Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
TERENCE MCKENNAHow do we fight back? By creating art.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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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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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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Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
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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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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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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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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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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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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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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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I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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