What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
TERENCE MCKENNADream 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.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
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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 surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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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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The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
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There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
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