It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
TERENCE MCKENNAFor all we know, we know nothing.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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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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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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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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Reality is made of words.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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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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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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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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