"What good is a theory of how the……" — Terence McKenna
"What good is a theory of how the universe works if it’s a series of tensor equations that, even when understood, come nowhere tangential to experience? The only intellectual or noetic or spiritual path worth following is one that builds on personal experience"
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202 Quotes by Terence McKenna
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We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the…
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Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no…
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Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.
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There is an area of the mind that could be called unsane, beyond sanity, and yet not insane. Think of…
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We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.
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Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.
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I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind…
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LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We…
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to…
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History is rooted in the future
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What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete…
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He who builds a masjid in the way of Allah, God will build a house for him in the paradise.
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I believe in feeling connected. Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds. But there is a…
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Love is something that grows, that comes from nourishment; it builds.
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The biblical method of change begins in the heart of man with the Gospel. It transforms the mind of man…
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I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the…
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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The left is back, and it's the only path we have to get out of the spot to which the…
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Everything I do as a mother builds on a foundation of love and compassion.
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The self-confidence one builds from achieving difficult things and accomplishing goals is the most beautiful thing of all.
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