Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
TERENCE MCKENNAIf you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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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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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know… You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You’ll have that!
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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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 we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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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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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 surface of things is not where attention should rest.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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