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.
TERENCE MCKENNAThere is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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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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This is the message of your life and my life – it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children – nothing lasts.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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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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There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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