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.
TERENCE MCKENNAYou are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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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To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
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These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
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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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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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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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The absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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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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We are told No, you’re unimportant, you’re peripheral – get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you’re a player.
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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
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