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 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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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news.
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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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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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If you actually look at the etymology of the word ‘hallucination’, what it’s come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That’s the meaning of ‘hallucination’, to wander in the mind.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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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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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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We are told No, you’re unimportant, you’re peripheral – get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you’re a player.
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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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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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