There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
TERENCE MCKENNAFor talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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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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The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know… You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You’ll have that!
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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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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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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