We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
TERENCE MCKENNAPeople without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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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 world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.
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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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What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion 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 absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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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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To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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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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