01c. 1973 ADWe can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place.Terence McKenna / quote ↗
02c. 1973 ADI think of going to the Grave without having a Psychedelic Experience is like going to the Grave without ever having Sex. It means that you never Figured out what it is all about. The Mystery is in the Body and the way the Body Works itself into Nature.Terence McKenna / quote ↗
03c. 1973 ADEcstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of this complex of ecstasy now is the word comfort, a tremendously bloodless notion. Drugs are not comfortable, and anyone who thinks they are comfortable or even escapist should not toy with drugs unless they’re willing to get their noses rubbed in their own stuff.Terence McKenna / quote ↗
04c. 1973 ADNothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement. So it's very important to actually listen to your own intuition rather than driving through it.Terence McKenna / quote ↗
05c. 1973 ADWe are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then you're a player, you don't want to even play in 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.” -Terence McKenna / quote ↗
06c. 1973 ADYou see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.Terence McKenna / quote ↗
08c. 1973 ADHistory is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.Terence McKenna / quote ↗
