To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
TERENCE MCKENNAAlcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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 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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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
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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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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
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If you actually look at the etymology of the word ‘hallucination’, what it’s come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That’s the meaning of ‘hallucination’, to wander in the mind.
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The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
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And what is the primary datum? It’s the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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