Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
TERENCE MCKENNAChaos 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.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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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 don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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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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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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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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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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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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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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This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
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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.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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This is the message of your life and my life – it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children – nothing lasts.
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