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.
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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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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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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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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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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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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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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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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You don’t even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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