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True Hallucinations

: Being an Account of the Author's Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil's Paradise

This mesmerizing, surreal account of the bizarre adventures of Terence McKenna, his brother Dennis, and a small band of their friends, is a wild ride of exotic experience and scientific inquiry. Exploring the Amazon Basin in search of myth

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“If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.”

— Terence McKenna, amazon.com

Tagged: Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness, Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights

“Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coercion, brainwashing, and manipulation.”

— Terence McKenna, amazon.com

Tagged: Television, TV, Media, Content, Brainwashing

“If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.”

— Terence McKenna, amazon.com

Tagged: Planning, Preparedness

“We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.”

— Terence McKenna, books.google.com

Tagged: empowerment, Self-Esteem

“Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.”

— Terence McKenna, amazon.com

Tagged: Western Civilization, Colonialism

“Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.”

— Terence McKenna, books.google.com

Tagged: Ideology, Fundamentalism, Fanaticism

“The cost of sanity in this society is a certain level of alienation.”

— Terence McKenna, amazon.com

Tagged: Sanity, Society, Alienation

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Chaos, Ego, Archetypes

“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, w…”

— Terence McKenna, amazon.com

Tagged: Courage, Dreams, Philosophers, Shaman, Abyss