The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
TERENCE MCKENNABeing imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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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 imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
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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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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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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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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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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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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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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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It 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!
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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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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Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
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Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
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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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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the 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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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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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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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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No one knows enough to worry.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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