Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 18

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort.

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  Pipeline, Neurosis, Absence

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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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• Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.

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  Inspirational, Life, Mind Blowing

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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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• Well, certainly the Voynich Manuscript is the 'limit text' of Western occultism. No one can read it. It is truly an occult book.

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  Book, Limits, Occult

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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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• I think institutions will inevitably substitute a rite or a ritual for the authentic, for the real McCoy, because then priests can control the pipeline to god, and the parishioner can approach with offerings. But if everybody can have a pipeline to deity, why then the whole priest scam is put out of business.

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  Real, Thinking, Offering

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• Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy.

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  Understanding, Psychedelic, Should

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• Culture is more and more consciously becoming a project carried out in the domain of language by, for instance, propaganda both governmental and commercial.

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  Culture, Becoming, Language

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• Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is both mind and matter, which can do anything.

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  Psychics, Mind, Matter

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• The same organizational principles which called us forth into self-reflection have called forth self-reflection out of the planet itself. And the problem then is for us to suspect this, act on our suspicion, and be good detectives, and track down the spirit in its lair. And this is what shamans are doing. They are hunters of spirit.

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  Reflection, Self, Track

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