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.
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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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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We are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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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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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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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 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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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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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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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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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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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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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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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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