We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
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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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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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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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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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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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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 Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know… You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You’ll have that!
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
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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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The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
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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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