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Culture as we're practicing it is causing a lot of pain.
Terence McKenna
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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
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Terence Kemp McKenna
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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I would argue that it's almost better to do heroin than to watch TV. At least when you're doing heroin you're responsible for your own reveries and thought processes. When you're mainlining TV what is it but endless messages to fetishize products?
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Flying saucers are nothing more than miracles, and they occur essentially to bedevil science.
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The central figure in the archaic revival is the shaman.
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Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience.
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No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.
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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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The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.
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Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.
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LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.
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All the accoutrements that distinguish us from animal existence were put in place when we had a different kind of mind than we have now. We didn't have a mind that favored role specialization, and male dominance, and anxiety over female sexual activity related to feelings of male ownership. That all came later.
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It's as important to be well informed in this area, if you're going to do it, as it is to be well informed about procedures in skin diving and that sort of thing if you're going to do that.
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An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.
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We are alienated, so alienated that the self must disguise itself as an extraterrestrial in order not to alarm us with the truly bizarre dimensions that it encompasses.
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I believe that what makes the psychedelic experience so central is that it is a connection into a larger modality of organization on the planet, which is a fancy way of saying it connects you up to the mind of Nature Herself.
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History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.
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Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.
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And I don't mean this metaphorically. I want to be taken seriously as proposing that the ennui of modernity is the consequence of a disruptive symbiotic relationship between ourselves and vegetable nature.
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