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.
TERENCE MCKENNAClaim 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.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
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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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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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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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The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
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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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Don’t worry. You don’t know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin’ out loud. It’s a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.
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The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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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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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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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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For all we know, we know nothing.
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