For all we know, we know nothing.
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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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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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 problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
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The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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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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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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There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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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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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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