Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 18

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• Actually, the highest form of human organization is not realized in the democratic individual. It is realized in a dimension none of us have ever penetrated, which is the mind of the species, which is actually the hand at the tiller of history. . . . It is an organized entelechy of some sort, and human history is its signature on the primates.

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  Hands, Organization, Mind

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• The 'public' has no history, has no future, lives in a golden moment created by credit, which binds them ineluctably to a fascist system that is never criticized. This is the ultimate consequence of having broken off this symbiotic relationship with the vegetable, feminine, maternal matrix of the planet.

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  Vegetables, Broken, Golden

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• And that we cannot go to space with our feet in the mud. Nor can we in fact turn ourselves into an eco-sensitive hallucinogenic-based culture on Earth unless we fuse these dichotomous opposites. It is only in a coincidencia oppositorum, a union of opposites, that does not strive for closure, that we are going to find cultural sanity. And this is the thing that the entheogens, the hallucinogens, deliver with such clarity and regularity. They raise paradox to a level of intensity that no one can evade.

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  Opposites, Feet, Space

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• It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind.

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  Mind, Becoming, Understood

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• No one yet understands the mysterious intelligence within plants or the implications of the idea that nature communicates in a basic chemical language that is unconscious but profound. We do not yet understand how hallucinogens transform the message in the unconscious into revelations beheld by the conscious mind.

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  Ideas, Profound, Mind

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• I really think there is a very large distinction between synthetic and naturally occurring drugs. ... I think that these plants 'take people' as much as people take the plants. ... When you take one of these ancient, ancient hallucinogens you are locking in to the morphogenetic fields of all the people who ever took it.

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  Thinking, People, Drug

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• The fungi became, or is for some mysterious reason still to be discovered, a pipeline into a mind, an entelechy, which we can only image as feminine and can only associate somehow to the environment, to the ecosystem. This is the Gaian mind. This is what the goddess really is. The goddess is a network of connective intelligence that is operating on this planet.

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  Ecosystems, Mind, Pipeline

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• There is a morphological enfoldment occurring on this planet. It is bringing forth some entirely new order of being. We are a privileged part of this.

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  Order, Planets, Privileged

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• Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land all were in dynamic balance and not in any primitive sense at all. Language was fully developed, poetry may have been at its climax, dance, magic, poetics, altruism, philosophy. There's no reason to think that these things were not practiced as adroitly as we practice them today and it was under the boundary dissolving influence of psilocybin.

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  Children, Philosophy, Men

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• And I don't mean this metaphorically. I want to be taken seriously as proposing that the ennui of modernity is the consequence of a disruptive symbiotic relationship between ourselves and vegetable nature.

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  Taken, Mean, Vegetables

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• Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made.

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  Real, Hands, Choices

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• We [psychonauts] are all going to go into the books as pioneers, because it's too early for us to be anything else. There's no map, no finished database, just anecdotes of the crazy, crazy stuff that goes on. That's why it's so important to try and share [our stories].

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  Crazy, Book, Important

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• To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality.

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  Reality, Trying, Psychedelic

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• The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being.

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  Reality, Mind, Primaries

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

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• The real truth that dare not speak itself, is that no one is in control, absolutely no one... Nobody is in control. This stuff is ruled by the equations of dynamics and chaos. Now, there may be entities seeking control - the World Bank, the Communist Party, the rich, the somebody-or-others - but to seek control is to take enormous aggravation upon yourself... It's like trying to control a dream.

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  Dream, Real, Aggravation

  "Dreaming Awake at the End of Time". Terence McKenna's speech in San Francisco, www.youtube.com. December 13, 1998.

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• I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.

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  Men, Thinking, Understanding

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• There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a very complex environment.

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  People, Hierarchy, Environment

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• Even a billion people is too much. There's no way back to the simplicity we once knew, but there may be a way forward to the simplicity that we once knew.

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  Way Forward, People, Simplicity

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• Inevitably out of the psychedelic experience emerges not despair, not self-indulgence, but wild-eyed idealism, that's the inevitable product of any psychedelically driven social process.

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  Self, Despair, Psychedelic

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• The Earth itself is stepping in to aid in the agenda of cultural transformation. There are too many doorways in nature that lead to heaven, there are too many paths to the mystery for any institution or social policy to be able to thwart the intent of the human species to evolve.

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  Heaven, Agendas, Earth

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• If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us to connect and reconnect the contents of the collective mind in ever more implausible, beautiful, and self-fulfilling ways.

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  Beautiful, Self, Imagination

  Terence McKenna (2010). “Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge”, p.253, Random House

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• My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.

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  Ideas, Ego, Enlightenment

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• By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.

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  Space, Phases, Psychedelic

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• The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

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  Confusion, Mind Blowing, Dying

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

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• Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.

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  Inspirational, Life, Mind Blowing

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