They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.

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Nature conserves, prefers novelty. -Terence McKenna

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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.

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The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere. -Terence McKenna

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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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Worrying is betting against yourself.

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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.

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The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

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What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us. -Terence McKenna

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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat. -Terence McKenna

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