Terence McKenna mõtteid

"Only the shaman knows that culture is a game. Everyone else takes it seriously. That's how he can do his magic.” — Terence McKenna


 ”No one knows enough to worry.” — Terence McKenna


 "Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control." — Terence 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.”
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But the 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.”


 "What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination." — Terence McKenna