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.
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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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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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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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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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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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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This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
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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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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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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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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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