black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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 McKenna

Related Topics

Anything Artist Burn Country Journey Mankind Self

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Culture Language Made Reality Virtual
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.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Being Count Divine Inspirational Life Light
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.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Bright Explore Free Mind People Psychedelic Right Society
There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Age Choice Compare Epidemic Free Illusion Liberation Live Nightmare Real
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 MCKENNA

Archetype Chaos Dominant Fera Lost Name Our Our World
Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Deaf Environment Men Mute Nature
Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Distinction Mind Native Psychedelic Real Say
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.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Abstraction Barely Earth Flame Flames Look Mind Blowing Much Ourselves Rouse Victim
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.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Believe Brain Consciousness Generated Inspirational Life Television
Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Alcoholism Disease Failure Image Self
People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
TERENCE MCKENNA

People Perpetual Plant State Want
And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Data Datum Experience Felt Immediate Primaries
What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Call Fact Hallucinations Nothing Reality Sanction
One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Attention Buddhist Control Key One Thing Take
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.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Degree Game Job Player Told Unimportant
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.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Animal Begin Imagination Mind Psychedelic Substance

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes