Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else’s being you can’t be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism.
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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
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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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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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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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Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough,
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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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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 is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know… You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You’ll have that!
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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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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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
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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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It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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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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What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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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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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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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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