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 MCKENNACulture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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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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If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
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I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can’t have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.
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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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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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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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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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