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 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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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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This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else’s being you can’t be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism.
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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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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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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it’s not necessarily some kind of ‘Be Here Now’ feel-good thing because it doesn’t always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It’s primary.
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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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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
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