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More Quotes by Terence McKenna
We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer
What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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.
You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions. When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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.
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.
Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough to realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.
