People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
TERENCE MCKENNAWe’ve painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare – triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights – or a leap to an entirely different level. We’ve taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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 drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
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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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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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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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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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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough,
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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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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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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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