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.
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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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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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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The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it’s not treated – if there’s not pharmacological intervention – it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.
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You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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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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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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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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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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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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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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To realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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