The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.
TERENCE MCKENNAOne thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
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If you actually look at the etymology of the word ‘hallucination’, what it’s come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That’s the meaning of ‘hallucination’, to wander in the mind.
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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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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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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news.
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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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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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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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You don’t even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
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The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.
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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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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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