What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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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The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it’s not treated – if there’s not pharmacological intervention – it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.
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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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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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You don’t even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
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There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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Reality is made of words.
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For 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.
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I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
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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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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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No one knows enough to worry.
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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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You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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