What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
TERENCE MCKENNAAstonishment is the proper response to reality.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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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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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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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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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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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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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 world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
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