Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough,
TERENCE MCKENNAAstonishment is the proper response to reality.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
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Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
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The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news.
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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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No one knows enough to worry.
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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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Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
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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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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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What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
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For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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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 Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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