How do we fight back? By creating art.
TERENCE MCKENNAI don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
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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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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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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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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 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.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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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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Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough,
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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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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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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.
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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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To realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
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