Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 25

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• What good is a theory of how the universe works if it’s a series of tensor equations that, even when understood, come nowhere tangential to experience? The only intellectual or noetic or spiritual path worth following is one that builds on personal experience

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  Spiritual, Intellectual, Path

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

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• What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.

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  People, Drug

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• History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.

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• History is the siren song of the soul.

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  Song, Soul, Sirens

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• Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.

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  Creating, Ego, Psychedelic

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• I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.

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  Ideas, Scorn, My Own

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• I think with the work we do with these drugs we are the earliest pioneers in what over the next 100 years will lead to an understanding of consciousness almost as a thing apart from the monkey body and brain.

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  Thinking, Years, Drug

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• I'm not an advocate of drugs. I'm an advocate of psychedelics.

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  Drug

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• We are living in a state of constant scientific revolution. There is not a single area that you can name that is now seen as it was seen a hundred years ago. Nothing is left of the world view of one hundred years ago.

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  Views, Years, Names

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• A great turning point is in the offing. The world is changing. It's changed before, but not for a long time in our lives, not since before our lives. But now it's changing, and there are many many possibilities.

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  Long, World, Possibility

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• I have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what I call unhappiness. It isn't for that.

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  Use, Neurosis, Unhappiness

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• The western mind, because of it's unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics.

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  Unique, Impact, Mind

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• Let's not underrate cannabis, for cryin' out loud. Cannabis should be the glue of the community.

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  Community, Glue, Cannabis

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• We have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition of the power of the psychedelic experience. The psychedelic experience is the birth right of every human being on the planet. It is as much a basic part of each and every one of us as our sexuality, our national identity, our consciousness of self. And any society which attempts to hold back or impede this dimension of self-expression, when the history of that society is written, it will be called barbarous.

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  Caring, Self, Expression

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• The shaman is a very peculiar figure. He is critical to the functioning of the psychological and social life of his community, but in a way he is always peripheral to it. He lives at the edge of the village. He is only called upon in matters of great social crisis. He is feared and respected. And this might be a description of these hallucinogenic substances.

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  Community, Peculiar, Substance

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• The traditional manner of taking psilocybin is to take a very healthy dose, in the vicinity of 15 mg. on an empty stomach in total darkness.

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  Healthy, Darkness, Psilocybin

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• The whole of the Amazonian narcotic complex, as it's called in the old literature, is based on activation of DMT by one strategy or another.

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  Dmt, Literature, Strategy

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• For unknown reasons, there is a tremendous concentration of psychoactive plants on the South American continent. The South American continent has more known hallucinogens than the rest of the planet combined.

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  Hallucinogens, Reason, Plant

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• What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.

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  People, World, Lsd

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• The psychedelic species of visual beauty is something we don't see in our furniture styles and our architecture. It seems to be coming in, literally, from another dimension, and yet it is undeniably moving. It's beautiful.

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  Beautiful, Moving, Style

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• History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.

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  Men, Years, Darkness

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• Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order.

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  Thinking, Order, Kind

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• A glacier rattles in the cupboard, the desert sighs in the bed, and the crack in the teacup opens a door to the land of the dead. The Maya call this Xibalba (Shibalba), the road to the dimension of the dead.

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  Doors, Land, Bed

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• Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.

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  World, Christianity, Henchmen

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• We love to congratulate ourselves on the forward-leaning liberal society that we live in, and the truth is it's a bunch of rattle snake-handling fundamentalists that are much closer to Stalin than they are to FDR or anybody else like that.

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  Snakes, Truth Is, Bunch

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