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More Quotes by Terence McKenna
The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer
What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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.
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.
To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
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.
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.
What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
Worrying is betting against yourself.
The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
