Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe 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.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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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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For all we know, we know nothing.
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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 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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This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else’s being you can’t be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism.
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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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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
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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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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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