How do we fight back? By creating art.
TERENCE MCKENNAThis is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else’s being you can’t be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
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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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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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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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I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
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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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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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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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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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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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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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