The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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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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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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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 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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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it’s not necessarily some kind of ‘Be Here Now’ feel-good thing because it doesn’t always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It’s primary.
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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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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.
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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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