Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 13

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• Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.

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  Lying, Smart, People

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• There is this persistent theme in all of these notions that death is made more easy, whatever that means, if you've learned the territory before you get there. And you know, in the Mahayana Buddhist situation it even becomes as extreme as saying; 'life is essentially a preparation for death, a studying of the maps of a learning of the skills a packing of your picnic basket so that when you get out there and demons are sniffing you up one side and down the other you don't bungle your mantras'.

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  Buddhist, Mean, Skills

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• All information is everywhere. Information that is not here is nowhere.

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  Information

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

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• This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in a voice which causes facts to be beheld by groups of people in a way that has been purged from profane language, for us relegated to poetry and that sort of thing.

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  Voice, People, Magic

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• I do not think that the government, under the guise of some phony, alarmist, pseudo-scientific rhetoric, should attempt to control the evolution of consciousness. After all, if these things truly are consciousness-expanding, it doesn't take too much intelligence to realize that it is the absence of consciousness that is causing our flirtation with extinction and planetary disaster.

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  Thinking, Government, Extinction

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• The message coming back at all of us is: live without closure.

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  Messages, Closure, Coming Back

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• I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.

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  Thinking, Preparation, Marathon

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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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• What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in the mathematical sense.

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  Reality, Thinking, Perspective

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• The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.

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  Drug, Helping, Shamanism

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• If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise, previously marginalized, takes on an immense new importance.

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  Novelty, Facts, Conservation

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• Marcel Eliade took the position that hallucinogenic shamanism was decadent, and Gordon Wasson, very rightly I believe, contravened this view and held that actually it was very probably the presence of the hallucinogenic drug experience in the life of early man that lay the very basis for the idea of the spirit.

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  Believe, Men, Views

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• The future holds no terrors for a person who knows how process inevitably unfolds. They are always right and with it each moment.

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  Moments, Process, Terror

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• ‎The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.

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  Wisdom, Moving, Inward

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• Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.

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  Alive, Earth, Matter

  "True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival".

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• What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine.

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  Done, Return, Psychedelic

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• My voice speaking is a monkey's mouth making little mouth noises that are carrying agree-upon meaning, and it is meaning that matters. Without the meaning one has only little mouth noises

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  Voice, Agree Upon, Mouths

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• There's only the integrity of doing and having done.

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  Integrity, Done

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• The content of the dialogue with 'the Other' is a content that indicates that man's horizons are infinitely bright, that death is in fact, well, as Thomas Vaughn put it, 'the body is the placenta of the soul'

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  Men, Soul, Horizon

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• The question is being asked, 'Are we alone?' And though we now focus on that question we need to think beyond that to what if we're not alone? Then what becomes the next imperative question?

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  Thinking, Focus, What If

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• A global society is coming into being, a global society that is made out of information that was not intended to be ours, but is ours, by the mistaken invention of computers and the printing press, information is power, and information has spilled by the clumsy hands of the dominator culture so that the information is everywhere, never before has the situation been so fluid, we might be able to finally have a crack at this

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  Information Is Power, Hands, Cracks

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• The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.

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  Unique, Self, Molecules

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• I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.

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  Thinking, People, Imagination

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• I'm not an abuser. It takes me a long time to assimilate each experience. And I never have lost my respect for it. I mean I really feel dread. It is one of the emotions I always feel as I approach it, because I have no faith that my sails won't be ripped this time.

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  Mean, Long, Emotion

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• In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.

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  People, Psychedelic, Sexuality

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