Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human situation, new ideas are coming to the fore. Psilocybin is a selective filter for this. The wish to go to space is a selective filter for this. Just the wish to know your own mind is a selective filter for this.
Terence McKennaTelevision, introduced at the close of World War II, has become a form of electronic heroin, and it isn't even your trip. They don't even let you go on your own trip, you get a trip designed by Madison Avenue.
Terence McKennaThese religions that are so freighted with their own pomposity are no better than inspired guesses.
Terence McKennaTelevision, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.
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