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.
TERENCE MCKENNAI don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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We are told No, you’re unimportant, you’re peripheral – get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you’re a player.
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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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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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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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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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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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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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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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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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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.
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