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Terence McKenna103 quotes“Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.”
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna There is no knowledge without risk taking.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know… You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You’ll have that!
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna 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.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna 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.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
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There is no vaccine against stupidity.
Albert EinsteinAlbert Einstein Being against evil doesn’t make you good.
Ernest HemingwayErnest Hemingway Guilt and defensiveness are bricks in a wall against which we all flounder; they serve none of our futures.
Audre LordeAudre Lorde I’m afraid that sometimes you’ll play lonely games too. Games you can’t win ’cause you’ll play against you.
Dr. SeussDr. Seuss Nothing can stand against our God. No sickness is too great, no addiction too strong, no enemy too powerful.
Joel OsteenJoel Osteen Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.
Winston ChurchillWinston Churchill Once a changemaker, always a changemaker but only a few swim against the tide.
Richard BransonRichard Branson It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamA. P. J. Abdul Kalam
