This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else’s being you can’t be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism.
TERENCE MCKENNAAlcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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.
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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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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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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.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.
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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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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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