Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
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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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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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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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
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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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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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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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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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