Dennis McKenna famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that are found in plants, cognition, consciousness, the working of the brain, it's all a chemically mediated process. Life itself is a drug experience.
-- Dennis McKenna

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No wonder psychedelics are threatening to an authoritarian religious hierarchy. You donâ€™t need faith to benefit from a psychedelic experience, let alone a priest or even a shaman to interpret it. What you need is courageâ€”courage to drink the brew, eat the mushroom, or whatever it is, and then to pay attention, and make of it what you will. Suddenly, the tools for direct contact with the transcendent other (whether you call it God or something else) is taken from the hands of an anointed elite and given to the individual seeker.
-- Dennis McKenna

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Think for yourself, and believe in yourself. Keep your skeptical antennae tuned in and in good working order at all times. We are free to develop our own hypotheses, which should be based in available evidence. When it comes to faith, have faith in yourself. And don't forget to love, laugh, be kind to each other. Don't take things so seriously, especially yourself. If the universe is a cosmic joke, remember to giggle. And remember to be astonished.
-- Dennis McKenna

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Nobody can have your psychedelic experience for you; you just have to screw your courage up and raise the cup to your lips or smoke the pipe or whatever it is and face what's in there.
-- Dennis McKenna

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I get frustrated with people who say that a drug experience can have no spiritual validity. I'm here to tell you that all experience is a drug experience. We're all on drugs all the time, largely because we are MADE of drugs
-- Dennis McKenna

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You monkeys only think youâ€™re running things,
-- Dennis McKenna

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As the sphere of understanding grows ever larger, necessarily the surface area of ignorance gets ever bigger
-- Dennis McKenna

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You monkeys only think you're running things.
-- Dennis McKenna

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Ayahuasca is a symbiotic ally of the human species.
-- Dennis McKenna

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Expressing oneself is like a drug. I'm so addicted to it.
Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
Everyone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.
Brains first and then Hard Work.
Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasnâ€™t easy. I didnâ€™t ask for this. I didnâ€™t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.
But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the Godhead into a mockery.
When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.
Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.
The substance of my being has been informed by the books I learned to care for.
There's substance to the point that sociological information is new. We have five years of information to weigh against 2,000 years of history or more.

Dennis McKenna famous quotes

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