Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
TERENCE MCKENNAI see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can’t have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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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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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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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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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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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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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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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 are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
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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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This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
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The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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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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