Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
TERENCE MCKENNAOur assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
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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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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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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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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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You don’t even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
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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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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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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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The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.
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What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.
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