Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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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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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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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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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 psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Culture 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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Reality is made of words.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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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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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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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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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it’s not treated – if there’s not pharmacological intervention – it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.
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These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
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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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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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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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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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