Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
TERENCE MCKENNANo one knows enough to worry.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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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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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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Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
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Reality is made of words.
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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can’t have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.
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The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
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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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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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