“Basically, I think it almost comes down to practicing a noisy form of aesthetic criticism of the society. If something is stupid, you should say so…” – Terence McKenna
“It’s important as an individual not to identify with the characteristics of a group. And it’s very tricky because you’re constantly binned into thinking of yourself as black, gay, white, poor, but those are not really qualities of individuals. Individuals are more complex than that. You may have a gay component, you may have a black portion of your genetic heritage but it doesn’t define yourself as a group. That’s a trick that was launched by print in the act of creating this peculiar entity called the public. The public is a fiction of the print created galaxy. You are not a citizen and you are not part of the public unless you seriously do damage to your humaness in order to fit yourself into such a narrow definition.” – Terence McKenna
“One should worship with the idea that [God] is one’s Self (atman); for therein all [aspects of God] become one. […] Whoever knows ‘I am brahman!’ becomes this All, and not even the gods can prevent his becoming thus, for he becomes their very Self. But whoever worships another divinity than his Self, supposing ‘He is one, I am another,’ knows not. He is like a sacrificial beast for the gods.’ – Brihadaranyaka Upinishad
“The mystery is in the body and the way the body works its way into nature.” – Terence McKenna
“lf you’re going to deal with reality, you’re going to have to make one big discovery: Reality is something that belongs to you as an individual. If you wanna grow up, which most people don’t, the thing to do is take responsibility for your own reality and deal with it on your own terms. Don’t expect that because you pay some money to somebody else or take a pledge or join a club or run down the street or wear a special bunch of clothes or play a certain sport or even drink Perrier water, it’s going to take care of everything for you.” – Frank Zappa
Travel Like a King 