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More Quotes by Terence McKenna
Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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.
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.
Worrying is betting against yourself.
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.
If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.
What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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.
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.
The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer
