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More Quotes by Terence McKenna
The only real experience that counts, is your own.
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.
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.
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.
Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer
The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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.
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.
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.
