The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
TERENCE MCKENNANo one knows enough to worry.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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No one knows enough to worry.
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The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news.
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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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If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
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What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
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Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
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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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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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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.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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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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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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To realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
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