If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
TERENCE MCKENNAIf you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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Claim 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.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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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 tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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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.
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What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.
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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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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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