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.
TERENCE MCKENNAWho is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
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Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
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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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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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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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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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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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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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