Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
TERENCE MCKENNAReality is made of words.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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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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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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It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
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I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
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