Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 2

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• Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension.

  Terence McKenna

  Preparation, Transition, Dimensions

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• The truth for sure,
  when it arrives,
  will make you smile.
  If it doesn't,
  you should seek
  a deeper truth.

  Terence McKenna

  Make You Smile, Should, Deeper

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• How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?

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  Self, Knows

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• No one knows enough to worry.

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  Worry, Enough, Knows

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• We live in condensations of our imagination

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  Imagination, Condensation

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• The shaman is a person who is able to transcend the dimensional confines of cultural existence. They know more than the people they serve. The people they serve are like children within the game of culture. Only the shaman knows that culture is a game. Everyone else takes it seriously. That's how he can do his magic.

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  Children, Games, People

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• Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it's not necessarily some kind of 'Be Here Now' feel-good thing because it doesn't always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It's primary.

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  Memories, Real, Feel Good

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• The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.

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  Ego, World, Feminine

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• The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.

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  Imagination, Pathways, Golden

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• The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.

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  Art, Kind, Works Of Art

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• Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.

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  Mirrors, Ability, Mirror Image

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

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• Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.

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  Silly, People, Mind Blowing

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• If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

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  Mushrooms, Mind Blowing, Psilocybin

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• Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.

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  Expansion, Plot, Culture

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• We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.

  Terence McKenna

  Ocean, Heart, Moon

  "The Archaic Revival". Book by Terence McKenna, 1991.

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• We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.

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  Museums, Perception, World

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• Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

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  Men, Environment, Deaf

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• We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being.

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  Needs, Metaphor

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• Not to know one's true identity is to be a mad, disensouled thing — a golem. And, indeed, this image, sick-eningly Orwellian, applies to the mass of human beings now living in the high-tech industrial democracies. Their authenticity lies in their ability to obey and follow mass style changes that are conveyed through the media. Immersed in junk food, trash media, and cryp-tofascist politics, they are condemned to toxic lives of low awareness. Sedated by the prescripted daily television fix, they are a living dead, lost to all but the act of consuming.

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  Lying, True Identity, Media

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• Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.

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  Talking, Proof, Knows

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• This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children - nothing lasts. To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.

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  Children, Pain, Moving

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• Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.

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  Kind, Building, Excellent

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• Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.

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  Secret, Behinds

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• Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?

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  Inspirational, Life, Attitude

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• The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.

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  Real, Adventure, Giving

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