If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
TERENCE MCKENNAPsychedelics 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.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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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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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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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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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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You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
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The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it’s not treated – if there’s not pharmacological intervention – it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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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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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 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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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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