To realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
TERENCE MCKENNACultures are virtual realities made of language.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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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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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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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 real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
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Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
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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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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
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Reality is made of words.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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