It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
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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To realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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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 a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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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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Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough,
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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
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