The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
TERENCE MCKENNAHow can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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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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Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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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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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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