We are told No, you’re unimportant, you’re peripheral – get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you’re a player.
TERENCE MCKENNABehind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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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 most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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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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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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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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We are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
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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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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
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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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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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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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