Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 12

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• Cultivate an ongoing stream of self-description, telling yourself what is happening. Get used to the idea that mind can penetrate the immediate surface of being and reveal the tactile density of it as a manifold whose measure cannot be immediately taken by the eyes, that it's deep, it's connected, it's complex. Everything holds within itself the anticipation and the memory of everything else.

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  Memories, Taken, Eye

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• I think the world is growing more psychedelic every day. I'm completely hopeful. . . . This is how it should be. This is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for hyperspace.

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  Thinking, Hopeful, World

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• We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.

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  Needs, Social Behavior, Dilemma

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• The planet has a kind of intelligence, it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message that nature sends is, transform your language through a synergy between electronic culture and the psychedelic imagination, a synergy between dance and idea, a synergy between understanding and intuition, and dissolve the boundaries that your culture has sanctioned between you, to become part of this Gaian supermind

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  Communication, Ideas, Imagination

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• Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This is the way engineers get high. They go to the moon!

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  Moon, Getting High, Voyages

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• If you go to Paris you know more about reality than people who don't. If you smoke DMT you know more about reality than people who don't.

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  Reality, Paris, Dmt

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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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• 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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• 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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• One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic knowledge is available.

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  Thinking, Culture, Psychedelic

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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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• 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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• And the whole schtick of the psychedelic experience, I think, is reclaim immediate experience, realize that you out vote all parliaments, police forces, and major newspapers on the planet because, who knows, they may be illusions.

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  Thinking, Police, May

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

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  Inspirational, Life, Secret

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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 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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• 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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• I think that's the job of each of us - to show our best toys and our best tricks that lift us and our friends to higher and higher levels. There is no end to this bootstrapping process. The future of the human mind and body and the future of humans together is endlessly bright.

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  Jobs, Thinking, Mind

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• History is rooted in the future

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  Historical, Rooted

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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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• 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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• Memory training is great psychedelic training.

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  Memories, Training, Psychedelic

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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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