Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
TERENCE MCKENNABeauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
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The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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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.
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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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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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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news.
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You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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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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