The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
TERENCE MCKENNAKnowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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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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Reality is made of words.
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The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
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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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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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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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I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
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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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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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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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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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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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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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