Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
TERENCE MCKENNAThere is no knowledge without risk taking.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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We are told No, you’re unimportant, you’re peripheral – get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you’re a player.
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This is the message of your life and my life – it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children – nothing lasts.
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Reality is made of words.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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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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I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can’t have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.
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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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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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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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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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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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