Worrying is betting against yourself.
TERENCE MCKENNAIf you actually look at the etymology of the word ‘hallucination’, what it’s come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That’s the meaning of ‘hallucination’, to wander in the mind.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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.
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We are told No, you’re unimportant, you’re peripheral – get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you’re a player.
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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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.
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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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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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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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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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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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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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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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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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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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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
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