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.
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.
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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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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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We’ve painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare – triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights – or a leap to an entirely different level. We’ve taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.
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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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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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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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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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