To realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
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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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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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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Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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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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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 problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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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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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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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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