Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 11

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

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  Doe, Mathematics, Deeper

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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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• 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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• To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.

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  Two, Rebel, Tasks

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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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• It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.

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  Law, World, Levels

  "Terence Mckenna's Last Trip". WIRED Inteview, www.wired.com. May 1, 2000.

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• Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago there was no other form of religion on this planet. That was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred.

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  Years, People, Firsts

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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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• If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.

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  Civilization, Names, Imagination

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• The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.

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  Creativity, Artist, Doctors

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• The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are precisely the tendencies in our psychological makup that the psychedelics mitigate. The plant hallucinogens dissolve habits and hold motivations up to inspection by a wider, less egocentric, and more grounded point of view within the individual.

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  Motivation, Views, Drug

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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• Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.

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  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• Once you get to this place on what we might metaphorically call your spiritual quest, once you get to the place where you hear about psychedelics, the issue is no longer then about where is the gas peddle on the spiritual vehicle. The issue suddenly becomes, where is the brake? Because this is the fuel to go where you want to go. This is the power to lift you where you want to be lifted.

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  Spiritual, Issues, Might

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• We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from drought and weather, freedom from the movement of game, the growth of plants, freedom from control from mendacious popes and kings, freedom from ideology, freedom from want. This idea of freeing ourselves has become the compass of the human journey.

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  Kings, Moon, Journey

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• Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to produce, not consume, media.

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  Media, Needs, Our Society

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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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• Only psychos and shamans create their own reality

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  Reality, Psycho

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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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• We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.

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  Believe, Ideas, Giving

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• Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

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  Consistency, Mind, Small Minds

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• As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.

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  Inspirational, Life, Individual

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• I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.

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  Thinking, Ideas, World

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