You’re immortal as long as you live.
TERENCE MCKENNAIt is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
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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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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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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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This is the message of your life and my life – it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children – nothing lasts.
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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.
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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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Reality is made of words.
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To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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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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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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Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
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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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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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