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More Quotes by Terence McKenna
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.
Worrying is betting against yourself.
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.
We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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.
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.
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.
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.
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.
What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.