The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news.
TERENCE MCKENNAIt is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.
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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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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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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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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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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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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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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
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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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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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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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It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
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