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Worrying is betting against yourself.

Worrying is betting against yourself.

Terence McKenna
Worry, Betting

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.

Terence McKenna
Real, Mind Blowing, Magic
"Alien Dreamtime". Live multimedia event in San Francisco, February 27, 1993.

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.

Terence McKenna
Inspirational, Life, Believe

Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.

Terence McKenna
Expansion, Plot, Culture

The truth for sure, when it arrives, will make you smile. If it doesn't, you should seek a deeper truth.

Terence McKenna
Make You Smile, Should, Deeper

Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.

Terence McKenna
Silly, People, Mind Blowing

The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.

Terence McKenna
Ego, World, Feminine

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.

Terence McKenna
Real, Imagination, Library
"Trialogue #24: The Heavens (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham)". Terence McKenna's speech at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, www.youtube.com. 1992.

Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening

Terence McKenna
Thinking, Mind Blowing, Listening

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.

Terence McKenna
Animal, Imagination, Mind

Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

Terence McKenna
Men, Environment, Deaf

Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.

Terence McKenna
Light, Imagination, Empowerment

The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.

Terence McKenna
Real, Adventure, Giving

I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture you build, what kind of art, what kind of technologies... What's lacking in the Western mind is the sense of connectivity and relatedness to the rest of life, the atmosphere, the ecosystem, the past, our children's future. If we were feeling those things we would not be practicing culture as we are.

Terence McKenna
Life, Art, Children

The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.

Terence McKenna
Imagination, Pathways, Golden

Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language.

Terence McKenna
World, Matter, Language

If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.

Terence McKenna
Self, Civilization, Ego

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

Terence McKenna
Talking, Proof, Knows

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.

Terence McKenna
Religious, Clothes, Prejudice

Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.

Terence McKenna
Mirrors, Ability, Mirror Image
"Psychedelic Society". Terence McKenna's speech at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, February 1984.

We don't have to look far for miracles because they're all around us. Everything is astonishing. The universe on it's surface is alive with mystery.

Terence McKenna
Miracle, Looks, Alive

There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.

Terence McKenna
Age, Illusion, Compare

What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.

Terence McKenna
Civilization, People, Mind Blowing

We are going through the eye of the needle; make sure you leave what you don't need behind

Terence McKenna
Eye, Needs, Needles

As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

Terence McKenna
Eye, Darkness, Bonfire

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