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.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
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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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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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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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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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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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We are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
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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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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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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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