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“The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.”
-- Terence McKenna

#Night #Drawing #Long
“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.”
-- Terence McKenna

#Dream #Teacher #Commitment
“You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.”
-- Terence McKenna

#Ideas #Our World #Mind Blowing
“If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.”
-- Terence McKenna

#Mind Blowing #Psychedelic #Plans
“Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.”
-- Terence McKenna

#Our World #Names #Ego
“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.”
-- Terence McKenna

#Government #Mind Blowing #Behaviour
“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.”
-- Terence McKenna

#Inspirational #Life #Light
“You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.”
-- Terence McKenna

#Responsibility #Mind Blowing #Understanding
“DMT is a reliable method for crossing in to a dimension that human beings have debated the existence of for 50.000 years. Is there an invisible nearby world inhabited by active intelligences with which human beings can communicate? You bet. And if you don't think so, then tell me you don't think so after you've smoked 75mg DMT. Otherwise we just don't have anything to talk about.”
-- Terence McKenna

#Thinking #Years #Dmt
“The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer”
-- Terence McKenna

#Mind Blowing #Answers #Faces
“If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.”
-- Terence McKenna

#Pursuit Of Happiness #Marijuana #Mind Blowing
“Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas”
-- Terence McKenna

#Ideas #Our World #World
“It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy.”
-- Terence McKenna

#War #Engineering #Years
“Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types today don't understand that it's not important to maintain control if you are not in control in the first place.”
-- Terence McKenna

#Views #Important #Culture
“Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.”
-- Terence McKenna

#Ego #Psychedelic #Absence
“Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.”
-- Terence McKenna

#Mind Blowing #Drug #Excellence
“What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should be put aside.... This is I think much of the problem of the modern dilemma: Direct experience has been discounted, and in its place all kinds of belief systems have been erected.... If you believe something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite; which means that a degree of your human freedom has been forfeited in the act of committing yourself to this belief.”
-- Terence McKenna

#Faith #Believe #Mean
“Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.”
-- Terence McKenna

#Inspirational #Life #Nature
“There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.”
-- Terence McKenna

#Struggle #Angel #Historical
“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.”
-- Terence McKenna

#Dream #Commitment #World
“Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.”
-- Terence McKenna

#Intellectual #Taste #Ninety
“Language betrays, in order to mean.”
-- Terence McKenna

#Mean #Order #Language
“Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.”
-- Terence McKenna

#Believe #Belief #Form
“If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's an absence of consciousness that is making this historical transition so excruciating.”
-- Terence McKenna

#Taken #Historical #Needs
“Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.”
-- Terence McKenna

#Consistency #Mind #Small Minds
“The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.”
-- Terence McKenna

#Darkness #Bigger #Bonfire
“We are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in 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.â€ -”
-- Terence McKenna

#Jobs #Player #Hands
“A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.”
-- Terence McKenna

#Teaching #Fall #Reality
“The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.”
-- Terence McKenna

#Real #Mind Blowing #Magic
“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?”
-- Terence McKenna

#Inspirational #Life #Attitude

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