If 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.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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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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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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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 are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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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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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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Reality is made of words.
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The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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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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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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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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