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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.

"And so then what it becomes about is - What are the frontiers of experience? How much of that has been taken away from us by these dominators, by these priesthoods, by these cults, by these philosophical shell games. Well - a lot. That’s the whole story of history. Our growing unease, our growing dis-ease, our malaise. Is all about the fact that we are kept from the well-spring of experience. We are sexually repressed, you may not feel it but look back a hundred years to a world where pianos wore pants. Maybe we’ve made a little progress on the sexual thing, maybe not, maybe more or less than we think. But we are repressed in all of these areas and we are particularly repressed in the area that relates to the psychedelic experience; Because it is Raid to the dominator insect invasion. They cant take it, they cant stand it because it empowers the individual, it dissolves the cheerful model of science. It’s just exposed as you know a nice story. It enriches the accessible universe tenfold, a hundredfold, a thousand fold. It makes the individual complete within his or herself. And this completion of the individual is extremely destructive to the plan of the dominators. Which is that you will be a cog in a machine, you will participate in the life of an organisation, not your life, the life of an organisation. You will go to some bullshit job. You will pour your best years of your life and your genius and your hopes into this. You will serve an institution. You will serve, serve, serve, serve.

Well, it’s a bad idea for free people to go along with this; A much better idea would be to insist on the dignity of human beings. To recognise that the freeing of slaves, the giving of the vote to woman, the ending of public whippings; That this program of political enlightenment must also then include HANDS OFF on how people want to relate to changing their minds. We are not interested on being sexually regulated by the state. And we are not interested in being intellectually, spiritually, emotionally manipulated by the state. The state should STAND DOWN in this issue! The state is acting as the enforcing arm of the dominator culture, specifically a fundamentalist screwballs. Who, are horrified by all this, by the notion that people would claim the authenticity of their own minds; That people would stand in the light of nature and reject original sin and the guilt from Eden and the sins of the fathers and all this rubbish which is handed down.

What the archaic revival is going to have to mean if it has teeth is a re-empowering of the individual and a consequent lowering of the profile of institutions, especially government. We need to think about these things because we have bought into the idea that we have to serve and behave and be enslaved else chaos will engulf the world. We need to carry out our analysis of the situation to the point where we can embrace chaos and see that chaos is the environment in which in we all thrive. That’s how I’ve done it for years. You think I could have gotten away with this in the Soviet Union? I don’t think so. I require a society on the brink of social breakdown to be able to do my work. And I think a society on the brink of social breakdown is the healthiest situation for individuals. I don’t know if any of you have had the privilege of being in a society in a pre-revolutionary situation but the cafes stay open all night, and there is music in the streets, and you can breathe it, you can feel it and you know what is happening. The dominator is being pushed. It never succeeds, it never is able to claim itself but on the other hand history is young. We may have a crack at this.

"A global society is coming into being, a global society made out of information that was not intended to be ours but which is ours. Through the mistaken invention and distribution of small computers, the printing press all this stuff. Information is power and information has been spilled by the clumsy handling of the cybernetic revolution by the dominator culture in so that it is everywhere. Never has the situation been more fluid. Never have the opportunities for infiltration, insurrection and hell-raising been more present at hand. But we have to seize the opportunity. If we continue as we have then we’re doomed and the judgment of some higher power on that will be, “They didn’t even struggle, they went to the boxcars with their suitcases and they didn’t even struggle”. This is too nightmarish to contemplate. We’re talking about the fate of a whole planet. Why are people so polite, why are they so patient, why are they so forgiving of gangsterism and betrayal? It's very difficult to understand. I believe it's because the dominator culture is increasingly more and more sophisticated in its perfection of subliminal mechanisms of control. And I don’t mean anything grandiose and paranoid. I just mean that through press releases and sound bites and the enforced idiocy of television the drama of a dying world has been turned into a soap opera for most people. And they don’t understand that it is their story and that they will eat it in the final act if somewhere between here and the final act they don’t stand up on their hind legs and howl. And it's not done through organising, it's not done through vanguard parties or cadres of intellectual elites. It's done through just walking away from all that. Claiming your identity, claiming your vision, your being, your intuition and then acting from that without regret, cleanly without regret."