Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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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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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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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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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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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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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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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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it’s not necessarily some kind of ‘Be Here Now’ feel-good thing because it doesn’t always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It’s primary.
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For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe.
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Don’t worry. You don’t know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin’ out loud. It’s a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.
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The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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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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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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