How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
TERENCE MCKENNAChaos 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.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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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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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
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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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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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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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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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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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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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The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
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