Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 14

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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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• Television, introduced at the close of World War II, has become a form of electronic heroin, and it isn't even your trip. They don't even let you go on your own trip, you get a trip designed by Madison Avenue.

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  War, Goes On, Television

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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 human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of the planet with safety.

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  Technology, Safety, Imagination

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

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

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  Integrity, Done

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• For me it's an issue of are we afraid of ourselves? And we inherit a huge bunch of idealogical baggage, not only Christianity, but Freudianism, and Marxism . . . We inherit all kinds of idealogical baggage designed to make us fear ourselves.

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  Issues, Baggage, Kind

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• I think that what these psychedelics do, is they actually do connect you to the whole circle. You stand outside of the moment from which you embarked on your psychedelic experience, and you see eternity like a vast landscape deployed in front of you. So what I think psychedelics are is they're about time, and they somehow make all time co-present.

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  Thinking, Circles, Landscape

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• The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.

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  World, Mystery, Problem

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• This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all about, we are edge-walking on an ontological transformation of what it means to be human.

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  Mean, Drug, Facts

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• The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in an atmosphere of continuous unfolding of understanding, so that every day you know more and see into things with greater depth than you did before. This is a process of education.

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  Understanding, Atmosphere, Trying

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• I think our intelligence is a source of toxicity to nature and discomfort to ourselves unless our values are based on planetary values, are linked to the values of the rest of nature. Intelligence is not a license to trample. The proper role of intelligence in a planetary ecology is that of gardener, caregiver and maintainer of balance.

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  Thinking, Balance, Roles

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• I sort of see [cannabis] as the pilot light of Gian consciousness.

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  Light, Pilots, Consciousness

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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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• Cultural conditioning is like bad software. Over and over it's diddled with and re-written so that it can just run on the next attempt. But there is cultural hardware, and it's that cultural hardware, otherwise known as authentic being, that we are propelled toward by the example of the shaman and the techniques of the shaman. ... Shamanism therefore is a call to authenticity.

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  Running, Technique, Example

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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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• Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

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  Philosophy, Branches, Shamanism

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• Reality itself is not static. This is one of the things that the psychedelic is trying to put across, that the reality we're embedded in is itself some kind of an organism and is evolving toward a conclusion.

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  Reality, Trying, Psychedelic

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

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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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• One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.

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  Mental Illness, Absence, Shamanism

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• A lot of people pass through the thinking I'm a guru and take enough trips to understand that no, I was just a witness. I was just a witness.

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  Thinking, People, Enough

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• Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.

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  Life, Religious, Feelings

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

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• If you charge off with some political agenda that is not informed by clarity, you are going to end up with business as usual. The road to hell is paved with good intentions but it is not paved with clarity.

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  Political, Usual, Agendas

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• Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.

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  Taken, Marijuana, Psychosis

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