Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 12

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• I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me happy.

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  Believe, Reality, Working Very Hard

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• Memory training is great psychedelic training.

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  Memories, Training, Psychedelic

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• You will ride the Tao
  toward the concrescence
  and will be able to live in the light
  of its anticipation.

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  Light, Able, Tao

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• I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a form of communication that is both psychedelic and telepathic; a model for the human communications of the future. In the not-too-distant future men and women may shed the monkey body to become virtual octopi swimming in a silicon sea.

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  Believe, Communication, Swimming

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

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• The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.

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  Space, Mind, Three

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• The way out then is personal responsibility, new operating systems downloaded from outside of culture, which means from the deeper wisdom of the psychedelic plants and then a commitment to community and a motto of "To the future, without fear!" Without fear!

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  Mean, Commitment, Responsibility

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• Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet

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  Inspirational, Life, Nature

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• A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

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  Fall, Teaching, Reality

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• Wherever we press beyond the thin curtain of rationalist culture, we discover the incredibly rich, erotic, scary, promising presence of this intelligent Other, that beckons us out of history, and says, you know: 'The galaxy lies waiting.'

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  Lying, Intelligent, Waiting

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• In the silence, in the darkness, swept away by these alien alkaloids and the plant-mind behind them, you find out a truth that can barely be told. And most of it can't be told.

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  Silence, Darkness, Mind

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• The psychedelic experience is the beginning of the spiritual path. That's why it's not important that yogas' claim that they can deliver you the psychedelic experience, because it begins with the psychedelic experience, and then you go from there.

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  Spiritual, Yoga, Important

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• The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products. This is terrifying news.

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  Spiritual, Emotional, Mind Blowing

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• Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types today don't understand that it's not important to maintain control if you are not in control in the first place.

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  Losing Control, Views, Important

  Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham (2001). “Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness”, p.50, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• We are like caterpillars contemplating pupation.

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  Caterpillars, Contemplating

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• When we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward toward the futile promise of life that circles distant stars in order to still our cosmic loneliness. We should look within; the paths of the heart lead to nearby universes full of life and affection for humanity.

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  Stars, Loneliness, Heart

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

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• As I see it, Being, the Cosmos, whatever you want to call it, is a struggle between two implacable forces: Novelty on the one side and habit on the other side.

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  Struggle, Two, Cosmos

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• Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter.

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  Inspirational, Life, Secret

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• The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.

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  Long, Miracle, Predicaments

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• The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.

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  Life, Nature, Fall

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• History is rooted in the future

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  Historical, Rooted

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• So what needs to be done is to spread the idea that anxiety is inappropriate. It's sort of like we who are psychedelic have to function as sitters for society, because society is going to thrash, and resist, and think it's dying, and be deluded, and regurgitate unconscious material, and so forth and so on. And the role then, I think, for psychedelic people is to try and spread calm.

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  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean.

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  Mean, Psychedelic, Telepathy

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• Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.

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  Technology, Interaction, Humans

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• Ayahuasca loves to take prideful people and rub their nose in it. I mean it can make you beg for mercy like nothing. You have to really approach it humbly.

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  Mean, Ayahuasca, People

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• The real nature of our predicament is completely opaque to us.

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  Real, Opaque, Predicaments

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