Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
TERENCE MCKENNAReality is made of words.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Reality is made of words.
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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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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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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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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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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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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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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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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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I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
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