Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 28

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• It’s pretty simple, the ethical life. It’s just demanding.

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  Simple, Ethical

  "Appreciating Imagination". Podcast from the Psychedelic Salon number 203, Part 3, matrixmasters.net. 1997.

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• The quality of rhetoric emanating from the psychedelic community must improve radically. If it does not, we will forfeit the reclamation of our birthright and all opportunity for exploring the psychedelic dimension will be closed off.

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  Opportunity, Community, Quality

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• To me, the most amazing the most amazing transformation in my lifetime is not the revolution of the Sixties but the counter revolution of the Seventies, where they managed to put the cuckoo clock back together again

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  Together Again, Cuckoos, Cuckoo Clocks

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• The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.

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  Real, Data, Justification

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• If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended.

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  Differences, Dying, Psychedelic

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• Each stage of cosmic development proceeded more quickly than the stage which preceded it.

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  Development, Stage, Cosmic

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• I finally realized that this 'place' that I kept bursting into [on a psychedelic experience] was somebody's idea of a playpen.

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  Ideas, Psychedelic, Bursting

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• And science, when it examines psychedelics, as it will and must, is going to discover a revolution, I believe, that will put all the previous revolutions in perspective.

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  Believe, Perspective, Revolution

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• You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.

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  Imagination, Enzymes, Activity

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• These things which are made of light and grammar and sound that come chirping and squealing and tumbling toward you. 'Hooray! Welcome! You're here!', and in my case, 'You send so many and you come so rarely!'

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  Light, Sound, Tumbling

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• I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism.

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  Believe, Hallucinogens, Shamanism

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• Don't diddle the dose. Once you have done your homework, go for it.

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  Done, Homework, Dose

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• This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god that functioned in these pre-Hellenic societies.

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  Rising, Facts, Kind

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• Just because you have a nut theory it doesn't mean that you agree with other nut theories. In fact, it often makes you very hostile to them. After all, there's a limited pool there that we're all after.

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  Mean, Nuts, Facts

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• Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a form of enforced infantilism. It's the last nursery, and most people never leave it.

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  Maturity, People, Lasts

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• For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.

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  Reality, Years, World

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• The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed. The present cultural crisis on the surface of the planet is caused by the fact that this is not a fitting theater for the exercise of imagination. It wrecks the planet. The planet has its own Eco-systemic dynamics, which are not the dynamics of imagination.

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  Lying, Exercise, Men

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• What I like to talk about, and what I have very little competition in terms of talking about, is the content of the psychedelic experience.

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  Talking, Competition, Littles

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• What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that nature builds on previously established levels of complexity.

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  Thinking, Giving, Credit

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• Eschaton comes from the Greek word 'echatos', which just means the end.

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  Mean, Greek, Ends

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• It's the only hallucinogen I know, where if it's made right, the next day, or the day after the experience, you actually feel better than if you hadn't done it.

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  Feel Better, Next Day, Hallucinogens

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• The 'person' is not an interchangeable part. The 'citizen' is. ... The person is harking back to a pre-print model. It's what the hippies were.

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  Hippie, Citizens, Print

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• If you sit down with a person, or a watermelon for that matter, when you're stoned and sing into it, the quality of the hallucination is such that there is a way of thinking about it where you could say, 'This is an acoustical hologram of the interior of their body.'" I don't say that.I just say, "My goodness isn't it strange that I seem to be able to see inside of the watermelon when I'm doing this.'

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  Thinking, Quality, Body

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• And the psychedelics, I believe, are the key to moving from wearing culture like cloths to recognizing that culture is this intensifying reflection of an aspect of the self and integrating it into the self.

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  Moving, Believe, Reflection

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• Tribalism is a social form which can exist at any level of technology. It's a complete illusion to associate it with low levels of technology. It is probably, in fact, a form of social organization second only to the family in its ability to endure.

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  Technology, Organization, Levels

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