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.
TERENCE MCKENNAYou’re immortal as long as you live.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news.
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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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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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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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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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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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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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