Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
TERENCE MCKENNAHow do we fight back? By creating art.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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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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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
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I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
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You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
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This is the message of your life and my life – it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children – nothing lasts.
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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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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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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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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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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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