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More Quotes by Terence McKenna
The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer
The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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.
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.
What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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 only real experience that counts, is your own.
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.
Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
