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 MCKENNACulture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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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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The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.
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Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
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For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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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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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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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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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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