Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
TERENCE MCKENNAThere is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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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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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
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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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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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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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This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
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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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Reality is made of words.
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