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.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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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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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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Don’t worry. You don’t know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin’ out loud. It’s a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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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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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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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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We are told No, you’re unimportant, you’re peripheral – get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you’re a player.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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