Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
TERENCE MCKENNAAnything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Reality is made of words.
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One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
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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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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
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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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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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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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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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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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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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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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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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