To realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
TERENCE MCKENNAThis 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.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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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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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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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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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe.
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Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
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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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We’ve painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare – triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights – or a leap to an entirely different level. We’ve taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.
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