Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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More Terence McKenna Quotes
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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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.
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I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can’t have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.
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The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
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Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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Reality is made of words.
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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.
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Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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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.
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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else’s being you can’t be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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