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.
TERENCE MCKENNAWe 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.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
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What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.
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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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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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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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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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If you actually look at the etymology of the word ‘hallucination’, what it’s come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That’s the meaning of ‘hallucination’, to wander in the mind.
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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
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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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No one knows enough to worry.
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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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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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If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
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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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