Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
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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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If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
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You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
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Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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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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I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
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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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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
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