Terence McKenna Quotes

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  What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

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  Reality, Hallucinations, Facts

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• Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. 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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  Dream, Teacher, Commitment

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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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  Inspirational, Life, Light

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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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  World, Tiny, Fractions

  "Understanding and Imagination in the Light of Nature". Book by Terence McKenna, 1987.

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• Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. 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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  Government, Information Processing, Dmt

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• The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.

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  Beautiful, Mind, Duty

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• We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.

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  Ocean, Heart, Moon

  "The Archaic Revival". Book by Terence McKenna, 1991.

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• Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough to realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.

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  Years, Games, People

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• The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.

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  Art, Kind, Works Of Art

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• We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle

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  Mystery, Caught, Riddle

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• The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

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  Mind Blowing, Answers, Faces

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• Astonishment is the proper response to reality.

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  Reality, Astonishment, Response

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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. 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.

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  Children, Pain, Moving

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• The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

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  Dmt, Mind Blowing, Cost

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• For all we know, we know nothing.

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  Knows

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• We are told No, you're unimportant, you're peripheral - get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you're a player. You don't even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.

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  Jobs, Player, Games

  "Reclaim Your Mind". Part of the Terence McKenna's lecture "Eros and the Eschaton", www.youtube.com. 1984.

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• If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

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  Mushrooms, Mind Blowing, Psilocybin

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• Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension.

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  Preparation, Transition, Dimensions

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• Worrying is betting against yourself.

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  Worry, Betting

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• The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

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  Darkness, Bigger, Bonfire

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• Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.

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  Silly, People, Mind Blowing

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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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  Inspirational, Life, Believe

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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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  Real, Mind Blowing, Magic

  "Alien Dreamtime". Live multimedia event in San Francisco, February 27, 1993.

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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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  Light, Imagination, Empowerment

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• The truth for sure,
  when it arrives,
  will make you smile.
  If it doesn't,
  you should seek
  a deeper truth.

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  Make You Smile, Should, Deeper

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