There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
TERENCE MCKENNABehind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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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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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 the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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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!
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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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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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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
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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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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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