Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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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I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
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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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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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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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For all we know, we know nothing.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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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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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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Reality is made of words.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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