What they [psychedelics] cause is what I'm advocating, a fundamental revaluation of cultural values, because culture as we're practicing it currently is causing a lot of pain to a lot of people, and animals, and ecosystems, none of whom were ever allowed to vote on whether they wanted this process to go in this direction.
Terence McKennaWhat we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.
Terence McKennaWhat blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.
Terence McKennaSo you know what we have to do is stop looking for leadership from the top, because the least among us make their way into those positions of power... So what we have to do is knock off this fantasy of being citizens inside a democratic state, I mean, what we are, are the propagandized masses inside a fascist dictatorship.
Terence McKennaIt seems to me far more likely that an advanced civilization would communicate inter dimensionally and telepathically.
Terence McKennaWe are told No, you're unimportant, you're peripheral - get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you're a player. You don't even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.
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