Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
TERENCE MCKENNANature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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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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Reality is made of words.
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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 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 led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and 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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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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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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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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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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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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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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