We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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To realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
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You don’t even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
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We are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
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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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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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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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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.
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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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No one knows enough to worry.
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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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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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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.
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