To realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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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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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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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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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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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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