Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
TERENCE MCKENNAI don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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Culture 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.
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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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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
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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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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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The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.
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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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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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