The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
TERENCE MCKENNAYou’re immortal as long as you live.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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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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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 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 apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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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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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
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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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Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it’s not necessarily some kind of ‘Be Here Now’ feel-good thing because it doesn’t always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It’s primary.
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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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