What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
TERENCE MCKENNACapitalism 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,
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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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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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
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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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No one knows enough to worry.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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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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For all we know, we know nothing.
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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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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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