Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe 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.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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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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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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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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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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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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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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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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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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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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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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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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