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Culture is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable. - Terrence McKenna

Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coercion, brainwashing, and manipulation. - Terrence McKenna

Culture is not your friend. Culture is for other peoples’ convenience and the convenience of various institutions, churches, companies, tax collection schemes, what have you. It is not your friend. It insults you. It disempowers you. It uses and abuses you. None of us are well-treated by culture. Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects. It 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. – Terrence McKenna

We lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy.
― Terence McKenna

Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong. Part of what psychedelics do is they decondition you from cultural values. This is what makes it such a political hot potato. Since all culture is a kind of con game, the most dangerous candy you can hand out is one which causes people to start questioning the rules of the game -Terence Mckenna

Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you? ― Terence McKenna

“The reason we feel alienated is because the society is infantile, trivial, and stupid. So the cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation. I grapple with this because I’m a parent. And I think anybody who has children, you come to this realization, you know—what’ll it be? Alienated, cynical intellectual? Or slack-jawed, half-wit consumer of the horseshit being handed down from on high?

There is not much choice in there, you see. And we all want our children to be well adjusted; unfortunately, there’s nothing to be well adjusted to!” ― Terence McKenna

“You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions. When you shed the cultural operating system, then, essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche…and it’s from that position, a position outside the cultural operating system, that we can begin to ask real questions about what does it mean to be human, what kind of circumstance are we caught in, and what kind of structures, if any, can we put in place to assuage the plan and accentuate the glory and the wonder that lurks, waiting for us, in this very narrow slice of time between the birth canal and the yawning grave. In other words we have to return to first premises.” ― Terence Mckenna

Let's not whore ourselves to nitwit ideologies. - Terrence McKenna

I'm not sure that's a concept as widely circulated in these circles as it needs to be - in other words, how do you tell shit from shinola? - Terrence McKenna

“Not to know one’s true identity is to be a mad, disensouled thing—a golem. And, indeed, this image, sickeningly Orwellian, applies to the mass of human beings now living in the high-tech industrial democracies. Their authenticity lies in their ability to obey and follow mass style changes that are conveyed through the media. Immersed in junk food, trash media, and cryptofascist politics, they are condemned to toxic lives of low awareness. Sedated by the prescripted daily television fix, they are a living dead, lost to all but the act of consuming. ― Terence McKenna, Food of the Gods

“I think of going to the grave without having a psychedelic experience like going to the grave without ever having sex. It means that you never figured out what it is all about. The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature.”― Terence McKenna

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"We all believe the same thing because there are thousands and thousands of us here all packed closely together, all more or less believing the same thing." - Terrence McKenna

Language binds us the way atomic forces bind metallic atoms in a Matrix - Terrence McKenna

New anything means you should put one hand over your wallet, and the other over your asshole! - Terrence McKenna

gabbar says

“I think of going to the grave without having a psychedelic experience like going to the grave without ever having sex.

That has to be one of the stupidest utterances I have ever heard. The mind addled fool who spoke it likely thinks he is profound. No different than the drunk who thinks he is the coolest dude in the bar.

gabbar says

New anything means you should put one hand over your wallet, and the other over your asshole! - Terrence McKenna

That leaves your scrotum wide open.