You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
TERENCE MCKENNAWho is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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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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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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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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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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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.
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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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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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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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