The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
TERENCE MCKENNAWe 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.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
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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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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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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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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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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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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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