How do we fight back? By creating art.
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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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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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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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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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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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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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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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 problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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Reality is made of words.
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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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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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