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"Far more seductive than opium, infinitely more effective in shaping behavior and expectations than alcohol and religion. Television is the most powerful weapon in psychological warfare in history. Consumer slaves in the west schedule their lives and relationships around watching T.V. They use it as a baby sitter for their youth, and wake up to this drug. They consume it whenever possible in the day, and go to sleep with it. They even take it in their meals. Television doesn’t kill, it pacifies, turning viewers into compliant zombies. They wear a vacant glassy-eye look on their faces, because they are in a trance-like state, this is the ideal. They sit still and ready for indoctrination."

Terence McKenna Food of the Gods (via we-are-meant-to-thrive)

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"The grammars of language-their internal rules-have been carefully studied. Yet too little attention has been devoted to examining how language creates and defines the limits of reality. Perhaps language is more properly understood when thought of as magic, for it is the implicit position of magic that the world is made of language."

Terence McKenna Food Of The Gods

"The suppression of the natural human fascination 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 styles that encourage overpopulation, resource mismanagement, and environmental toxification develop and maintain themselves. No culture on earth is as heavily narcoticized 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.
As a species, we need to acknowledge the depth of our historical dilemma. We will continue to play with half a deck as long as we continue to tolerate cardinals of government and science who presume to dictate where human curiosity can legitimately focus its attention and where it cannot. Such restrictions on the human imagination are demeaning and preposterous. The government not only restricts research on psychedelics that could conceivably yield valuable psychological and medical insights, it presumes to prevent their religious and spiritual use, as well. Religious use of psychedelic plants is a civil rights issue; its restriction is the repression of a legitimate religious sensibility. In fact, it is not a religious sensibility that is being repressed, but the religious sensibility, an experience of religio based on the plant-human relationships that were in place long before the advent of history."

Terence McKenna Food Of The Gods