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Kind Quotes by Terence McKenna
- 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…
- 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....…
- 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…
- Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what's going on.
- Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort, and ignore. That is that nature is some…
- You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks…
- The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.
- Reality itself is not static. This is one of the things that the psychedelic is trying to put across, that the reality we're embedded in…
- It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet. The mushroom visions…
- Time is a topological manifold. It is a surface. Events flow across it like water over land and like water flowing over land, when the…
- What we really are is a community of mind, knitted together by codes and symbols, intuitions, aspirations, histories, hopes - the invisible world of the…
- I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature as…
- There’s light at the end of the tunnel. The problem is that tunnel is in the back of your mind. And if you don’t go…
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