Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
TERENCE MCKENNAScience does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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If you actually look at the etymology of the word ‘hallucination’, what it’s come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That’s the meaning of ‘hallucination’, to wander in the mind.
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The 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.
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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.
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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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This is the message of your life and my life – it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children – nothing lasts.
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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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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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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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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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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 long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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