Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.
Terence McKennaIt's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.
Terence McKennaAnd what is shamanism but philosophy with a hands-on attitude. Philosophy not made around the camp fire, but philosophy based on the acquisition of extreme experience. That's how you figure out what the world is, not by bicycling around in the burbs, but by forcing extreme experience.
Terence McKennaScience does not deal with subjective experience... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
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