Birthright Quote by Terence McKenna

“I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.”

Terence McKenna

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We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.

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What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.

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And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.

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Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types…

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Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.

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This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts.…

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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.

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