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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• Not to know one's true identity is to be a mad, disensouled thing — a golem. And, indeed, this image, sick-eningly Orwellian, applies to the mass of human beings now living in the high-tech industrial democracies. Their authenticity lies in their ability to obey and follow mass style changes that are conveyed through the media. Immersed in junk food, trash media, and cryp-tofascist politics, they are condemned to toxic lives of low awareness. Sedated by the prescripted daily television fix, they are a living dead, lost to all but the act of consuming.

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  Lying, True Identity, Media

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• Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants

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  Sacrifice, Ants, Bloody

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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 engineers of the future will be poets.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Poet

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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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• Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening

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  Thinking, Mind Blowing, Listening

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

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  Darkness, Bigger, Bonfire

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

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  Beautiful, Mind, Duty

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• We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.

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  Fighting, Intelligent, Icons

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• We are going through the eye of the needle; make sure you leave what you don't need behind

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  Eye, Needs, Needles

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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 shaman is a person who is able to transcend the dimensional confines of cultural existence. They know more than the people they serve. The people they serve are like children within the game of culture. Only the shaman knows that culture is a game. Everyone else takes it seriously. That's how he can do his magic.

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  Children, Games, People

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• How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?

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  Self, Knows

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• Astonishment is the proper response to reality.

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  Reality, Astonishment, Response

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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 have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.

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  Museums, Perception, World

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• No one knows enough to worry.

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  Worry, Enough, Knows

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• When your time is turned into money, the felt presence of immediate experience is analogous to being enslaved. I mean, let's be frank about it, it is enslavement.

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  Mean, Frank, Felt

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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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