The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
TERENCE MCKENNAWhen 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.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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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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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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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
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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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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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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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You don’t even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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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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The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it’s not treated – if there’s not pharmacological intervention – it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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