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.
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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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
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The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.
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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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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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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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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
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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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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.
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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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