We are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
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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The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.
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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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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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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know… You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You’ll have that!
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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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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The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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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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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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