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.
TERENCE MCKENNAWe are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.
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If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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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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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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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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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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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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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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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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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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Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
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The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
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