This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else’s being you can’t be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism.
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More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
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To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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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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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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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 problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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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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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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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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It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
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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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