Reality is made of words.
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.
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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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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else’s being you can’t be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism.
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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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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The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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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.
TERENCE MCKENNAAnd 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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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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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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What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
TERENCE MCKENNAWhat civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
TERENCE MCKENNAEvery click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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