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.
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 problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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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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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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It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
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Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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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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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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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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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.
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Reality is made of words.
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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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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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