Terence McKenna Quotes

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  What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.

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  Reality, Hallucinations, Facts

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• Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

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  Dream, Teacher, Commitment

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• You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

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  Inspirational, Life, Light

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• Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough to realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.

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  Years, Games, People

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• The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.

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  World, Tiny, Fractions

  "Understanding and Imagination in the Light of Nature". Book by Terence McKenna, 1987.

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• Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.

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  Government, Information Processing, Dmt

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• The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.

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  Beautiful, Mind, Duty

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• Worrying is betting against yourself.

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  Worry, Betting

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• Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.

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  Enlightenment, Culture, Barriers

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• We are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle

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  Mystery, Caught, Riddle

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• This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children - nothing lasts. To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.

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  Children, Pain, Moving

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• The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

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  Mind Blowing, Answers, Faces

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• The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

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  Dmt, Mind Blowing, Cost

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• If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

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  Mushrooms, Mind Blowing, Psilocybin

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• The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.

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  Real, Mind Blowing, Magic

  "Alien Dreamtime". Live multimedia event in San Francisco, February 27, 1993.

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• The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.

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  Real, Adventure, Giving

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• It is now very clear that techniques of machine-human interfacing, pharmacology of the synthetic variety, all kinds of manipulative techniques, all kinds of data storage, imaging and retrieval techniques - all of this is coalescing toward the potential of a truly demonic or angelic kind of self-imaging of our culture... And the people who are on the demonic side are fully aware of this and hurrying full-tilt forward with their plans to capture everyone as a 100% believing consumer inside some kind of a beige furnished fascism that won't even raise a ripple.

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  Believe, Self, Data

  "Non-Ordinary States of Reality Through Vision Plants". Book by Terence McKenna, 1988.

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• The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.

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  Ego, World, Feminine

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• We are going through the eye of the needle; make sure you leave what you don't need behind

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  Eye, Needs, Needles

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• The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.

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  Drug, Computer

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• I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

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  Inspirational, Life, Believe

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• Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension.

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  Preparation, Transition, Dimensions

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• We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.

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  Ocean, Heart, Moon

  "The Archaic Revival". Book by Terence McKenna, 1991.

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• Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

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  Men, Environment, Deaf

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• We are told No, you're unimportant, you're peripheral - get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you're a player. You don't even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.

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  Jobs, Player, Games

  "Reclaim Your Mind". Part of the Terence McKenna's lecture "Eros and the Eschaton", www.youtube.com. 1984.

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