I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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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Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough,
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You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
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Don’t worry. You don’t know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin’ out loud. It’s a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.
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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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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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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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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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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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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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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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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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