Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 15

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• The momentum now is inevitable. Now it's about each of us individually arranging the furniture of our own mind to deal with what has become inevitable.

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  Mind, Momentum, Furniture

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• People are concrescences of ambiguity.

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  People, Ambiguity

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• Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness. . . . Would that we could send robots who could film these psychedelic realities. . . . The presence of so much beauty is an argument to me that truth cannot be far away.

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  Reality, Ordinary, Robots

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• Our culture takes us out of the body and sells our loyalty into political systems, into religions, into inanimate objects and machines, collections, so forth and so on. The felt experience of the body is what the psychedelics are handing back to us.

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  Loyalty, Political, Inanimate Objects

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• Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.

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  Believe, Belief, Form

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• We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.

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  May, Monkeys, Consciousness

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• The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of.

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  Men, Made, Unconscious

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• Time will perfect matter.

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  Perfect, Matter

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• The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human symbiosis occurred that pulled us out of the animal body and into the tool-using, culture-making, imagination-exploring creature that we are. And why does this matter? It matters because it shows that the way out is back and that the future is a forward escape into the past. This is what the psychedelic experience means. Its a doorway out of history and into the wiring under the board in eternity.

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  Mean, Animal, Past

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• Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the “thou shalts” and “thou should”, but rather a recovery of the real ambiguity of being and an ability to see ourselves as at once powerful and weak, noble and ignoble, future-oriented, past-facing.

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  Powerful, Real, Lying

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• Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human situation, new ideas are coming to the fore. Psilocybin is a selective filter for this. The wish to go to space is a selective filter for this. Just the wish to know your own mind is a selective filter for this.

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  Ideas, Space, Mind

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• I'm fascinated by hallucinations. I mean, to me that is the sina qua non that you're getting somewhere.

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  Mean, Hallucinations, Fascinated

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• 'Drugs' and psychedelics are not two members of a family, they are antithetically opposed to each other. The pro-psychedelic position is an anti-drug position.

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  Two, Drug, Psychedelic

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• What is happening, I think, it's really bigger than psychedelics, it's bigger than human evolution. We are not making the waves in this ocean. We are corks, riding the waves of the ocean. But we are privileged, by perhaps chance alone, to occupy a unique moment in the history of the universe. A moment when the universe goes through some kind of self-transforming, evolutionary, inflationary expansion. That's what's happening.

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  Ocean, Unique, Thinking

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• All the accoutrements that distinguish us from animal existence were put in place when we had a different kind of mind than we have now. We didn't have a mind that favored role specialization, and male dominance, and anxiety over female sexual activity related to feelings of male ownership. That all came later.

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  Animal, Anxiety, Feelings

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• No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night.

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  Dark, Night, Interesting

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• The smart people who are straight are involved in simply the media management of what has turned into a slow apocalypse, spreading starvation, exacerbated class differences, toxified agriculture, so forth and so on. I don't believe the Establishment thinks there are solutions. Their policy is basically the management of panic, which is hardly a forward moving approach to the adventure of human civilization.

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  Smart, Moving, Believe

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• The reason I am so passionately committed to the psychedelic thing is because I see it as radical, and if this is not the moment for radical solutions, what is?

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  Psychedelic, Moments, Reason

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• We are alienated, so alienated that the self must disguise itself as an extraterrestrial in order not to alarm us with the truly bizarre dimensions that it encompasses.

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  Self, Order, Alarms

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

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• We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in all systems.

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  Anarchy, Realizing, Claims

  "Psychedelic Society". Terence McKenna's speech at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, February 1984.

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• It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . . And that this is how culture moves forward. That culture is a phenomenon dependent on the generation of ideas, plans, notions, connections. So this is precisely what these compounds are doing.

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  Moving, Ideas, Community

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• The 'hard swallow' built into science is this business about the Big Bang. ... This is the notion that the universe, for no reason, sprang from nothing in a single instant. ... Notice that this is the limit test for credulity. . . . It's the limit case for likelihood.

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  Limits, Bangs, Tests

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• It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.

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  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• The reason for the emphasis on shamanism and on other techniques is, you will need techniques if you go into the deep water. And they can make your life very simple and save you from unnecessary suffering. Not all suffering is necessary. Maybe no suffering is necessary.

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  Simple, Deep Water, Suffering

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• Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.

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  Stones, Tradition, Shamanism

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