Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 20

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• What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.

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  Decadence

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• Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed

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  Art, Names, Ego

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• The human brain is the god of technological innovation.

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  Innovation, Brain, Technological

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• But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.

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  World, End Of The World, Ends

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• Think about this for a moment, we grow so inured to these religious forms, think about the notion of instituting at the center of your religion a rite where you eat your god is probably a memory of a relationship to some kind of a psychedelic experience of some sort.

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  Religious, Memories, Thinking

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• Standing outside the cultural hysteria the trend is fairly clear. It is a trend toward temporal compression and the emergence of ambiguity.

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  Hysteria, Trends, Standing Out

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• For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.

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  Animal, Glory, Humans

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• Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.

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  Imagination, Psychedelic, Involvement

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• Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.

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  Ego, Males, Population

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• Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved.

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  Novelty, Boundaries, Situation

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• The possibility seems to be that what we call styles, or what we call motifs, are actually categories in the unconscious.

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  Style, Possibility, Motifs

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• By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other.

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  People, Expectations, Fundamentals

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• Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.

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  Two, Years, Long

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• It's a relationship like to a crusty Zen master, or something like that. And it is really like another entity because you cannot predict the answers.

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  Answers, Masters, Entity

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• Time is a series of fluctuating variables.

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  Variables, Series

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• It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.

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  Development, Way, Language

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• The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be dealt with.

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  Sky, Waiting, Forever

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• Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.

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  Shamanism, Ecstasy

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• I discovered early in life a stunning truth that's made my life very complicated in its wake, but that I still think is true, and it's that people are very easy to love.

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  Thinking, People, Complicated

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• Could any symbol be any more appropriate of the ambiguity of human transformation? What mushroom is it that grows at the end of history? Is it Stropharia cubensis, or is it the creation of Edward Teller? This is an unresolved problem.

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  Mushrooms, Transformation, Problem

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• Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of this complex of ecstasy now is the word comfort, a tremendously bloodless notion. Drugs are not comfortable, and anyone who thinks they are comfortable or even escapist should not toy with drugs unless they’re willing to get their noses rubbed in their own stuff.

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  Thinking, Empathy, Joy

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• We must look to the native healers all over the world and study their methods... Their methods are chemical and personal. It's a combination of care, attention, intention and chemistry that allows consciousness to be made malleable and recast in other forms.

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  Looks, Attention, World

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• One way of assessing the toxicity of a drug is how do you feel the next day?

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  Next Day, Drug, Way

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• What we call three dimensional space, and what we call the imagination actually have a contiguous and continuous transformation from one into the other, ... and THIS is big news!

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  Space, Imagination, Three

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• Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.

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  Together, Culture, Becoming

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