Terence McKenna Quotes About Life
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Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?
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The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.
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Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.
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Nothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement. So it's very important to actually listen to your own intuition rather than driving through it.
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As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.
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Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet
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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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Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.
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The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.
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Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.
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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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Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.
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I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture you build, what kind of art, what kind of technologies... What's lacking in the Western mind is the sense of connectivity and relatedness to the rest of life, the atmosphere, the ecosystem, the past, our children's future. If we were feeling those things we would not be practicing culture as we are.
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Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter.
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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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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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.
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Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.
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The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature.
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The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.
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