The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
TERENCE MCKENNACulture 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.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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Don’t worry. You don’t know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin’ out loud. It’s a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.
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To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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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 artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
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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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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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