The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
TERENCE MCKENNACulture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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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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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe.
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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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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough,
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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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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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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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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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We are told No, you’re unimportant, you’re peripheral – get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you’re a player.
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You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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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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