We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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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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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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We are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
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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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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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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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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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If you actually look at the etymology of the word ‘hallucination’, what it’s come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That’s the meaning of ‘hallucination’, to wander in the mind.
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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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