The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
TERENCE MCKENNAWhat was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe.
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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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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.
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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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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 drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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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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I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can’t have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.
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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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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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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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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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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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