Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 21

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• That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.

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  Mind, Organized, Core

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• It's getting funnier because everybody's categories are disintegrating, and the cult of political correctness dictates that we never point out that other people don't make sense.

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  People, Political, Categories

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• Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience.

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  Psychedelic, Psychedelic Experience, Involved

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• Flying saucers are nothing more than miracles, and they occur essentially to bedevil science.

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  Miracle, Flying, Flying Saucers

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• The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.

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  Life, Animal, Ridiculous

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

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• We can't sell short the spiritual power of cannabis, especially when eaten.

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  Spiritual, Cannabis, Spiritual Power

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• The good news about psychedelics is that they are incredibly democratic. Even the clueless can be swept along if the dose is sufficient.

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  Clueless, News, Democratic

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• The race isn't to the swift, it's to the thoughtful.

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  Thoughtful, Race

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• You may miss the end of the world, but you definitely are going to have a front row seat for the end of your world.

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  Missing, World, May

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• Our task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate.

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  Tasks, Memes, Replicate

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• What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings, which has always been a great puzzle to evolutionary theory, I believe, occurred in the presence of a kind of catalyst for the human imagination.

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  Believe, Imagination, Expansion

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• What is the psychedelic experience? What promise does it hold for a sane future for our planet and our children? And what is it about it that kindles the kind of loyalty that I feel coming from the people in this room this evening? And I submit to you that it is nothing less than the rebirth of a voice that has been silent for at least a thousand years, the still small voice of the Logos of the planet.

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  Loyalty, Children, Years

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• If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new community that is wider and deeper than you know. The people who are building the new machines, who are designing the new circuitry, who are writing the new code are ALL freaks. They work for capitalist dogs, of course, because we all do, but the creative thrust of these technologies is being driven by people just like you and me.

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  Dog, Writing, Technology

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• What is needed, is an awakening.

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  Awakening, Needed

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• Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.

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  Mind Blowing, Apes, Facts

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• The shaman has access to a superhuman dimension and a superhuman condition, and by being able to do that he affirms the potential for transcendence in all people. He is an exemplar, if you will.

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  People, Able, Dimensions

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• The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.

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  Imagination, World, Body

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• I think what's really happening is that a dialogue opens up between the ego and these larger, more integrated parts of the psyche that are normally hidden from view.

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  Thinking, Views, Ego

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• The thing is that it is incredibly frustrating to anyone who would control it, because you can't predict the impact of any technology before you put it in place.

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  Technology, Impact, Frustrating

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• We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place.

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  Dmt, Long, Mind Blowing

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• Psychedelics are actually a kind of miraculous reality that can stand the test of objective examination.

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  Reality, Examination, Tests

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• In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed [through use of psychedelics] as simply quaint cultural artifacts, painted masks and rattles assembled by people of good intent but clearly not great grasp of the situation.

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  Democratic Ideals, People, Might

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• So when you look at the eschaton what you see, strangely enough, is your own face.

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  Looks, Faces, Enough

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• I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language develops, and therefore regulate human culture generally.

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  Culture, Pheromones, Levels

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• There is a belief that there is a hyperobject called Overmind, or God, that casts a shadow into time. History is our group experience if this shadow. As one draws closer and closer to the source of the shadow, the paradoxes intensify, the rate of change intensifies. What is happening is that the hyperobject is beginning to ingress into three-dimensional space.

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  Space, Shadow, Groups

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