Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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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I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can’t have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.
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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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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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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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If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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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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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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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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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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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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