Terence Quotes
The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.
When you struggle hard and lose money, you're a hero. When you start making money you become a capitalist swine.
Our task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate.
Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.
Well, certainly the Voynich Manuscript is the 'limit text' of Western occultism. No one can read it. It is truly an occult book.
Psilocybin, tryptamine, is in my opinion the means to eliminating the future by becoming cognizant of the architecture of eternity, which is modulating time and causing history, essentially.
The traditional manner of taking psilocybin is to take a very healthy dose, in the vicinity of 15 mg. on an empty stomach in total darkness.
My voice speaking is a monkey's mouth making little mouth noises that are carrying agree-upon meaning, and it is meaning that matters. Without the meaning one has only little mouth noises
I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.
The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.
To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.
I believe that the place to search for extraterrestrials is in the psychic dimension.
What the psychedelics are for us as a species, rather than for each one of us as an individual, what they are for us as a species is an enzyme that catalyzes the language-making capacity.
What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.
History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.
Biology seems to be a chemical strategy for amplifying quantum mechanical indeterminacy so that it leaves the subatomic realm and can be present in a hundred and forty five pound block of meat.
The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.
Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole.
Without sounding too cliché, the Internet really is the birth of some kind of global mind.
Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.
It has been said that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but many it not be truer to say that to be absolutely powerful a man must first corrupt himself?
Without prayer, our faith is weakened, our love grows cold, our hope becomes uncertain.
Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.
'Drugs' and psychedelics are not two members of a family, they are antithetically opposed to each other. The pro-psychedelic position is an anti-drug position.
With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!
Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.
Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order.
A lot of young directors, they're not confident; they're not open to the emotional level of the scene.
What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine.
There is a morphological enfoldment occurring on this planet. It is bringing forth some entirely new order of being. We are a privileged part of this.
