I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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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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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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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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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
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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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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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Reality is made of words.
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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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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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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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