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?
TERENCE MCKENNAOur assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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We’ve painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare – triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights – or a leap to an entirely different level. We’ve taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.
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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
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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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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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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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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it’s not treated – if there’s not pharmacological intervention – it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.
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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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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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Reality is made of words.
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You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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