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.
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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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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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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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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You don’t even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
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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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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
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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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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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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
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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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Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
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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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