The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
TERENCE MCKENNAThe Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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Reality is made of words.
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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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These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
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I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can’t have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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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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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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If you actually look at the etymology of the word ‘hallucination’, what it’s come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That’s the meaning of ‘hallucination’, to wander in the mind.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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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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