Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
TERENCE MCKENNATo me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Don’t worry. You don’t know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin’ out loud. It’s a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.
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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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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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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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The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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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 problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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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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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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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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