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.
TERENCE MCKENNAI don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.
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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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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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This is the message of your life and my life – it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children – nothing lasts.
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What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
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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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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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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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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 most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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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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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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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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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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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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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
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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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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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Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
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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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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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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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