Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
TERENCE MCKENNAPsychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window.
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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Psychedelics 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.
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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 world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
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Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
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We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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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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For all we know, we know nothing.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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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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