Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
TERENCE MCKENNAThese 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.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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Reality is made of words.
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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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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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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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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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The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
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What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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