No one knows enough to worry.
TERENCE MCKENNAYou are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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We’ve painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare – triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights – or a leap to an entirely different level. We’ve taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.
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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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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.
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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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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 surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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