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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: cidmaoomers on September 19, 2013, 02:03 am

Title: Terence McKenna Quotes
Post by: cidmaoomers on September 19, 2013, 02:03 am
From Food of the Gods:

"We can become obsessed with almost anything: with a behavior pattern such as reading the morning paper or with material objects (the collector), land and property (the empire builder), or power over other people (the politician). While any of us may be collectors, few of us have the opportunity to indulge our obsessions to the point of becoming empire builders or politicians. The obsessions of the ordinary person tend to focus on the here-and-now, on the realm of immediate gratification through sex, food, and drugs. An obsession with the chemical constituents of foods and drugs (also called metabolites) is labeled an addiction."
Title: Re: Terence McKenna Quotes
Post by: cidmaoomers on September 19, 2013, 02:04 am
Food of the Gods: "Habit. Obsession. Addiction. These words are signposts along a path of ever-decreasing free will. Denial of the power of free will is implicit in the notion of addiction."
Title: Re: Terence McKenna Quotes
Post by: cidmaoomers on September 19, 2013, 02:07 am
Food of the Gods:
"The time has therefore come, in the great natural discourse that is the history of ideas, thoroughly to rethink our fascination with habitual use of psychoactive and psysioactive plants. We have to learn from the excesses of the past, especially the 1960s, but we cannot simply advocate 'Just say no' any more than we can advocate 'Try it, you'll like it'".
Title: Re: Terence McKenna Quotes
Post by: cidmaoomers on September 19, 2013, 02:37 am
The suppression of the natural human fascinatino with altered states of consciousness and the present perilous situation of all life on earth are intimately and causally connected. When we suppress access to shamanic ecstasy, we close off the refreshing waters of emotion that flow from having a deeply bonded, almost symbiotic relationship to the earth. As a consequence, the maladaptive social style that encourage overpopulation, resource mismanagement, and environmental toxification develop and maintain themselves. No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions.

From "Food of the Gods" (again, it's really a great book)