Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
TERENCE MCKENNAYou are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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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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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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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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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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The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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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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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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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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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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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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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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