Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 13

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

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  Real, Opaque, Predicaments

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

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  Messages, Closure, Coming Back

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• ‎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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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