It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
TERENCE MCKENNAIt is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know… You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You’ll have that!
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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The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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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 our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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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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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
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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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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it’s not necessarily some kind of ‘Be Here Now’ feel-good thing because it doesn’t always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It’s primary.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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