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.
TERENCE MCKENNANotice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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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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The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
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The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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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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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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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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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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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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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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We’ve painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare – triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights – or a leap to an entirely different level. We’ve taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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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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