Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 19

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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 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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• 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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• Part of what the psychedelic point of view represents is living a certain portion of your life without answers. Just accepting that certain dilemmas will never resolve themselves into some kind of a complete answer. That's why psychedelics are so different from any system being sold, from one of the great elder systems like Christianity, to the latest cult out of Los Angeles.

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  Views, Different, Answers

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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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• The intellectual tension that seems to work its way through this society almost like fat through meat is the tension between scientific reductionism and the deeply felt intuition of most people that there is a spiritual dimension, or a hidden dimension, or a transcendental dimension.

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  Spiritual, People, Intellectual

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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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• The idea of psychedelic societies is something new. And it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone takes the drug. It merely means that the complexity and the mysteriousness of mind are centered in the consciousness of the civilization as the mystery which it comes from and which it must relate to in order to be relevant.

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  Mean, Order, Civilization

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• Culture as we're practicing it is causing a lot of pain.

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  Pain, Culture

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• Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.

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  Spring, Language

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• The only evil that associates itself with mushrooms is taking too little.

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  Mushrooms, Evil, Littles

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• What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.

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  Effort, Balance, Way

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• I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky.

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  Believe, Issues, Tacky

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• The current operating system [culture] is flawed. It actually has bugs in it that generate contradictions. We're cutting the earth from beneath our own feet. We're poisoning the atmosphere that we breathe. This is not intelligent behaviour. This is a culture with a bug in its operating system that's making it produce erratic, dysfunctional, malfunctional behaviour. Time to call a tech! And who are the techs? The shamans are the techs.

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  Cutting, Intelligent, Feet

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• We now know enough to fantasize realistically about what the alien would be like, and I think that this then sets up polarities in the collective psyche that previously we have only seen at the level of the individual.

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  Thinking, Would Be, Levels

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• I regard these people who are peddling angst and peddling pessimism and all that stuff as so 'two minutes ago'.

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  Two, People, Stuff

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• It's possible to see the whole human growth movement of the 1970s as a wish to continue the inward quest without having to put yourself on the line in the way you had to when you took 250 gamma of LSD. And I think all these other methods are efficacious, but I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off.

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  Thinking, People, Growth

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• It puts people who are into this psychedelic thing in an entirely different stance from all other spiritual seekers, because all other spiritual seekers are furiously seeking. Psychedelic people are holding it back with all their power, because they are in the presence of the mystery. And then the trick is to get a spigot on it so that it can be turned on and off rather than coming at you like a tidal wave a mile high and twenty miles wide.

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  Spiritual, People, Twenties

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• History is a series of approximations of the final singularity.

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  Finals, Singularity, Series

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• I connect the psychedelic dimension to the dimension of inspiration and dream.

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  Dream, Inspiration, Dimensions

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

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• The "just say no" campaign at this point is a lot like drawing sea-monsters over certain unexplored areas of the map and expecting people to stay away. It may work for some, but explorers live for this kind of thing.

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  Sea, Drawing, People

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• If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's an absence of consciousness that is making this historical transition so excruciating.

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  Taken, Historical, Transition

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• The other night I searched (the Web) for 'self-transforming elf machines.' There were 36 hits! It surprised me. I sort of use the search engine like an oracle. I've used the phrase for DMT, 'Arabian hyperspace.' So I thought of this, and then I searched it, 'Arabian hyperspace,' in quotes. And it took me right to a transcript of the talk in which I'd said the thing! You can find your own mind on the Internet. I'm very grateful to the people who type up my talks and then post them at their websites.

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  Grateful, Night, Self

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• Man was not put on this planet to toil in the mud. Or the god who put us on this planet to toil in the mud is no god I want to have any part of. It's some kind of gnostic demon. It's some kind of cannibalistic demiurge that should be thoroughly renounced and rejected.

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  Men, Toil, Want

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