It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know… You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You’ll have that!
TERENCE MCKENNABehind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
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The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.
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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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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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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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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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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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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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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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