No one knows enough to worry.
TERENCE MCKENNAWe do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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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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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
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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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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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You don’t even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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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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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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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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There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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