It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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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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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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Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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Reality is made of words.
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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
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To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.
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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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Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
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This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else’s being you can’t be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism.
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