Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
TERENCE MCKENNAYou 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.
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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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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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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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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The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.
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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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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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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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