Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
TERENCE MCKENNAFor all we know, we know nothing.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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 tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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Reality is made of words.
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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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Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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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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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.
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If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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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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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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