The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
TERENCE MCKENNANotice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
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You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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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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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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It 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!
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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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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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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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