This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else’s being you can’t be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism.
TERENCE MCKENNAIt 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!
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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We’ve painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare – triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights – or a leap to an entirely different level. We’ve taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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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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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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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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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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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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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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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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If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
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