Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 10

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• Psilocybin, tryptamine, is in my opinion the means to eliminating the future by becoming cognizant of the architecture of eternity, which is modulating time and causing history, essentially.

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  Mean, Becoming, Psilocybin

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• Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to tolerate its splendor. It can't just reveal itself openly because we would be forfeited; we'd never know what hit us.

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  Touching, Would Be, Able

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• We are creatures of information and the imagination. The monkey we are already beginning to transform and shed. We don't look like the other monkeys, and we look less like them all the time.

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  Imagination, Looks, Monkeys

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• Science is the exploration of the experience of nature without psychedelics. And I propose, therefore, to expand that enterprise and say that we need a science beyond science. We need a science which plays with a full deck.

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  Play, Needs, Exploration

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• We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.

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  Dropping Out, Psychedelic, Dropping

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• The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself.

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  Care, Belief, Obligation

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• This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say that the universe, nature, is a novelty-conserving, or complexity-conserving engine.

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  Law, Novelty, Complexity

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• Escape into the dream. Escape, a key thing charged against these drugs, that they are for escapists. I think the people who make this charge hardly dare dream to what degree they are escapist.

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  Dream, Thinking, Keys

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• It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.

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  Technology, Political, Acting

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• Nobody should be allowed more than fifty years to get their act together.

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  Years, Together, Fifty

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• Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most.

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  Doe, Mathematics, Deeper

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• We have changed. We are no longer, as I said, bipedal monkeys. We are instead a kind of cybernetic coral reef of organic components and inorganic technological components.

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  Monkeys, Coral Reefs, Kind

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• To contact the cosmic giggle, to have the flow of casuistry begin to give off synchronistic ripples, whitecaps in the billows of the coincidental ether, if you will. To achieve that, a precondition is a kind of unconsciousness, a kind of drifting, a certain taking-your-eye-off-the-ball, a certain assumptions that things are simpler than they are, almost always precedes what Mircea Eliade called ‘the rupture of plane’ that indicates that there is an archetypal world, an archetypal power behind profane appearances.

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  Eye, Giving, Balls

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• The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

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  Men, Sick, Mind Blowing

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• Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.

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  Moving, Animal, Dmt

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• This is a general comment that you should take a committed dose of whatever it is you're taking so that there is no ambiguity, because there's nothing worse than a sub-threshold psychedelic experience.

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  Psychedelic, Should, Threshold

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• The mind is the cutting edge of the evolving event system.

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  Cutting, Mind, Events

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• One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You cannot evolve faster than your language because the language defines the culture of meaning. So if there's a way to accelerate the evolution of language then this is real consciousness expansion and it's a permanent thing. The great legacies of the 60's are in attitudes and language. It boils down to doing your own thing, feeling the vibe, ego-trip, blowing your mind.

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  Attitude, Real, Thinking

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• Psychedelics can carry you farther and faster than most people care to go. Once you get to psychedelics, it's no longer a matter of seeking the answer, you have found the answer. Now the issue changes dramatically, you must face the answer.

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  Issues, People, Answers

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• Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans.

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  Best Laid Plans, Roving, Able

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• What the churches are peddling is high abstraction, and you really have to work yourself up into a lather to be able to accept that as worthy of that kind of attention. The psychedelic subset of society is into an experience, and it's accessible.

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  Church, Attention, Able

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• The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.

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  Tools, Inspection, Immense

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• Thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations.

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  Thinking, Welcome, Social

  Interview with Tom Hodgkinson (1993) as quoted in Tom Hodgkinson "How to be idle", 2004.

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• Only responsible human beings can exist in an anarchistic society.

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  Responsible, Humans, Human Beings

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• I think the entire message of the psychedelic experience, which is basically the sine qua non of the rebirth of alchemical understanding, the very basis of that understanding is that nature seeks to communicate.

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  Thinking, Understanding, Messages

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