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.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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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 long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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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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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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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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We’ve painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare – triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights – or a leap to an entirely different level. We’ve taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.
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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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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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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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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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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 world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
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