The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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.
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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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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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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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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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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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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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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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The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe.
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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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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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We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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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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