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Trip

: Psychedelics, Alienation, and Change

Part memoir, part history, part journalistic exposé, Trip is a look at psychedelic drugs, literature, and alienation from one of the twenty-first century's most innovative novelists--The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test for a new

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Terence McKenna (9)Tao Lin (2)

“Nature loves courage. If you don't have a plan, you become part of someone else's plan.”

— Terence McKenna, amazon.com

Tagged: Planning, Nature Favors The Bold, Leadership

“Once a culture has complete understanding of its genetic information, it reengineers itself for survival.”

— Terence McKenna, amazon.com

Tagged: Evolution, Cultural Zeniths, Points Of Re-Implosion, Rebuilding Cultural DNA, From The Explosion

“My tears felt dense and complex as blood.”

— Tao Lin, amazon.com

Tagged: Tears, Blood, Examples of Metaphors

“The every-colored stars of imagining what one can imagine.”

— Terence McKenna, amazon.com

Tagged: Imagination, Stars

“I have been vehemently accused by people who didn’t understand me of not believing in anything. I don’t believe in anything. This is not a statement of existential hopelessness for which you should light a candle for me at night. It’s a strategy for not getting bogged down in some weird trip. After…”

— Terence McKenna, amazon.com

Tagged: Active Nihilism, Believing In Nothing But Everything, Belief, Ideological Structures

“Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate— just like genes replicate, and infect, and move into the organism of society.”

— Terence McKenna, amazon.com

Tagged: Memes, Producing Work, Viral Media

“The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.”

— Terence McKenna, amazon.com

Tagged: Limited Reality, Bureaucracy Of Nature, Vault on Reality, Seeing Seeing

“For one human being to seek enlightenment from another is like a grain of sand on the beach seeking enlightenment from another.”

— Terence McKenna, amazon.com

Tagged: Examples of Similes, Similes, Following Leaders, Trust Yourself, Don't Follow Others

“Avoid gurus, follow plants.”

— Terence McKenna, amazon.com

Tagged: plants, Learning From Nature, Against Guru Culture, Gardening

“We all want our children to be well-adjusted; unfortunately, there’s nothing to be well-adjusted to.”

— Terence McKenna, amazon.com

Tagged: Parenting, Growing Up, Being Weird, normal, normalcy

“I felt myself leaving Earth in an intimidatingly disquieting manner, like I was on a vessel I hadn’t suspected to exist, departing a place I’d assumed was the only place.”

— Tao Lin, amazon.com

Tagged: Drug Experiences, Leave Earth, Psychedelics, Mushrooms, Quote of the Moment