What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
TERENCE MCKENNAPsychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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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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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.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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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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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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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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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 surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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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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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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