How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
TERENCE MCKENNAEgo is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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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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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
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The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.
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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 drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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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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What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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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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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news.
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