Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 16

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• Without sounding too cliché, the Internet really is the birth of some kind of global mind.

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  Mind, Birth, Internet

  "Terence Mckenna's Last Trip". WIRED Intrview, www.wired.com. May 1, 2000.

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• Time is a topological manifold. It is a surface. Events flow across it like water over land and like water flowing over land, when the land is flat, the water becomes reflective and moves slowly. When the landscape becomes disrupted, the water moves faster and chaotic attractors appear and new kinds of activity emerge and out of that new activity, there comes the new states that define the future.

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  Moving, Land, Water

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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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• We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.

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  Greek, Events, Human Experience

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• We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us.

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  Alarms, Invasion, Ufo

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• The state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent for the agenda of the church.

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  Sex, Drug, Secret

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• We're not going to save the monkey unless we can shed the monkey. And the greatest impetus, the greatest inspiration to the expression of our higher selves comes in the confrontation with psyche that occurs in the psychedelic experience.

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  Inspiration, Self, Expression

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• The Gaian mind is what were calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet - and without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies. But with that experience the compass of the self can be set.

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  Self, Mind, Desert

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• The Germans take quite a knock for the holocaust, but the Catholic church manages to push more people into death, disease, and degradation every year than the holocaust managed in its entire show. And it's thought rather crass to even mention the fact. It seems to me that as long as these Catholic bishops can show their face in public that we are in complicity with mass murder.

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  Years, Long, People

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• I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.

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  Book, Drug, Burning

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• What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.

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  Mind, Needs, Dirt

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• Inside the boundaries of the old paradigm there's no hope, there's no way out of the box of capitalism, monogamy, consumer fetishism, egoism, money worship, no way out. No way. No way out!

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  Way, Worship, Boundaries

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• Shamanism, on the other hand, is this world wide, since Paleolithic-times, tradition which says that you must make your own experience the center piece of any model of the world that you build.

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  Hands, Pieces, World

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• The real truth is splintered and spread throughout time.

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  Real, Truth Is, Spread

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• We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the evolution of language.

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  Moving, Psychedelic, Evolution

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• What WE represent is the nexus of concrescent novelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself, folding itself in upon itself for billions and billions of years. There is, so far as we know, nothing more advanced than what is sitting behind your eyes. The human neocortex is the most densely ramified complexified structure in the known universe.

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  Moving, Eye, Years

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• ...situations evolve as matter responds to the conditioning of time and space...If you know what is contained in time from its beginning to its end you are somehow no longer in time. Even though you still have a body and still eat and do what you do, you have discovered something that liberated you into a satisfying all-at-oneness.

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  Oneness, Space, Unity

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• The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Just as the history of yourself that you don't know is what your personal unconscious is made out of.

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  Men, Made, Unconscious

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• A birth is a death. Everything you treasure, and believe in, and love, and relate to is destroyed for you when you leave the womb. And you are launched into another modality, a modality that perhaps you would not have chosen but that you cannot do anything about.

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  Believe, And Love, Treasure

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• One reaches through to the continents and oceans of the imagination, worlds able to sustain anyone who will but play, and then lets the play deepen and deepen until it is a reality that few would even dare to entertain...The human imagination is the holographic organ of the human body, and we don't 'imagine' anything. We simply see things so far away that there is no possibility of validating or invalidating their existence.

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  Ocean, Reality, Play

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• DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen there is. If it gets stronger than that I don't want to know about it.

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  Powerful, Dmt, Stronger

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• Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.

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  Drug, Television, Nevertheless

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• People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.

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  People, Neurosis, Existential

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• There is no contradiction between technology and spirit. There is no contradiction between the search for intellectual integration and understanding and the psychedelic experience. There is no contradiction between ultra-advanced hyperspacial cyber culture and Paleolithic archaic culture. We have come to the end of our sojourn in matter. We have come to the end of our separateness.

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  Technology, Understanding, Intellectual

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• So the conclusion that I reach, visa vie the individual and civilization, is this: Culture is not our friend. Culture is not your friend. It's not my friend. It's a very uncomfortable set of accommodations that have been hammered out over time for the convenience of institutions.

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  Civilization, Culture, Individual

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