The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news.
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.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
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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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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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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.
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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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Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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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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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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