Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
TERENCE MCKENNAReality is made of words.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
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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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What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.
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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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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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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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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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Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough,
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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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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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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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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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