No one knows enough to worry.
TERENCE MCKENNAFor all we know, we know nothing.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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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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Reality is made of words.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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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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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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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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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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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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We are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
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The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it’s not treated – if there’s not pharmacological intervention – it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.
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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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