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More Quotes by Terence McKenna
Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.
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.
We are told No, you're unimportant, you're peripheral - get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you're a player. You don't even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
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.
Worrying is betting against yourself.
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.
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.
The only real experience that counts, is your own.
The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer
