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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.
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More Quotes by Terence McKenna
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.
What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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.
What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
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.
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 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
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.
Worrying is betting against yourself.
