I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
TERENCE MCKENNAOne thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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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.
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I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
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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.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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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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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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We are told No, you’re unimportant, you’re peripheral – get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you’re a player.
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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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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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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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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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