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 MCKENNANo one knows enough to worry.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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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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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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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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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it’s not treated – if there’s not pharmacological intervention – it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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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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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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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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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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