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.
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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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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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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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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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
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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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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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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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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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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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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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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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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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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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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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We are told No, you’re unimportant, you’re peripheral – get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you’re a player.
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To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
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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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Reality is made of words.
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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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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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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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