Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
TERENCE MCKENNAEgo 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.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.
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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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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
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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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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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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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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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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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You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
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