We are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe 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.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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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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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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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
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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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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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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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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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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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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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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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Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it’s not necessarily some kind of ‘Be Here Now’ feel-good thing because it doesn’t always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It’s primary.
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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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