Terence Mckenna on Psychedelics
I don’t necessarily agree with the late Mr. Mckenna on the value of blasting open the doors of consciousness but when he calls it a civil rights issue, well he’s right. Its you body and mind to do with what you wish. Altering how you see reality is your human right.
“We’re playing with half a deck as long as we tolerate that the cardinals of government and science should dictate where human curiousity can legitimately send its attention and where it can not. It’s an essentially preposterous situation. It is essentially a civil rights issue, because what we’re talking about here is the repression of a religious sensibility. In fact, not a religious sensibility, The religious sensibility. Not built on some con game spun out by eunichs, but based on the symbiotic relationship between mankind and the magical plants in his/her natural surroundings that was in place for our species for fifty thousand years before the advent of history, writing, priestcraft and propaganda. So it’s a clarion call to recover a birthright.”
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Terence McKenna: Non-Ordinary States Through Vision Plants (1988)