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The only real experience that counts, is your own.

The only real experience that counts, is your own.

Terence McKenna
Real

It is now very clear that techniques of machine-human interfacing, pharmacology of the synthetic variety, all kinds of manipulative techniques, all kinds of data storage, imaging and retrieval techniques - all of this is coalescing toward the potential of a truly demonic or angelic kind of self-imaging of our culture... And the people who are on the demonic side are fully aware of this and hurrying full-tilt forward with their plans to capture everyone as a 100% believing consumer inside some kind of a beige furnished fascism that won't even raise a ripple.

Terence McKenna
Believe, Self, Data
"Non-Ordinary States of Reality Through Vision Plants". Book by Terence McKenna, 1988.

DMT is a reliable method for crossing in to a dimension that human beings have debated the existence of for 50.000 years. Is there an invisible nearby world inhabited by active intelligences with which human beings can communicate? You bet. And if you don't think so, then tell me you don't think so after you've smoked 75mg DMT. Otherwise we just don't have anything to talk about.

Terence McKenna
Thinking, Years, Dmt

You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.

Terence McKenna
Responsibility, Mind Blowing, Understanding
Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.

Terence McKenna
Ego, Mind Blowing, Culture

You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.

Terence McKenna
Mind Blowing, Secret, Blowing It

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

Terence McKenna
Ego, Psychedelic, Absence
"Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution". Book by Terence McKenna, February 1, 1992.

If we could feel what we are doing to the Earth, we would stop immediately.

Terence McKenna
Earth, Feels, Ifs

No one knows enough to worry.

Terence McKenna
Worry, Enough, Knows

This 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. The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news.

Terence McKenna
Emotional, Long, Culture

We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.

Terence McKenna
Fighting, Intelligent, Icons

Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.

Terence McKenna
Secret, Behinds

Science does not deal with subjective experience... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have.

Terence McKenna
Doe, Deals, Wells

Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?

Terence McKenna
Inspirational, Life, Attitude

If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.

Terence McKenna
Weed, Pursuit Of Happiness, Marijuana

LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.

Terence McKenna
Personality, Different, Lsd

The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.

Terence McKenna
Drug, Computer

How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?

Terence McKenna
Self, Knows

Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?

Terence McKenna
Thinking, Expansion, Doe

You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.

Terence McKenna
Our World, Ideas, Dmt

And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.

Terence McKenna
Data, Felt, Primaries

I see the psychedelic experience as both the centerpiece of prehistoric life and destined to be the centerpiece of any future that we want to be part of.

Terence McKenna
Want, Psychedelic, Centerpieces

Psychedelic experiences and dreams are chemical cousins; they are only different in degree.

Terence McKenna
Dream, Cousin, Degrees
Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham (2001). “Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness”, p.15, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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.

Terence McKenna
Real, Taken, Hippie

Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy.

Terence McKenna
Games, Miracle, Energy

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