If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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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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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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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 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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We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
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I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
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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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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
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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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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it’s not necessarily some kind of ‘Be Here Now’ feel-good thing because it doesn’t always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It’s primary.
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