What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
TERENCE MCKENNACulture 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.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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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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One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
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Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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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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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.
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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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What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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