Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
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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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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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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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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You don’t even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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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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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
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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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We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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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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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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