It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know… You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You’ll have that!
TERENCE MCKENNABeing imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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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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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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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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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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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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Reality is made of words.
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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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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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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
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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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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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