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.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe 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.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
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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 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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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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No one knows enough to worry.
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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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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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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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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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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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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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