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.
TERENCE MCKENNAThis is the message of your life and my life – it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children – nothing lasts.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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You 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.
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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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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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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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Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
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If you actually look at the etymology of the word ‘hallucination’, what it’s come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That’s the meaning of ‘hallucination’, to wander in the mind.
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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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Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
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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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