Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 3

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• We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights - or a leap to an entirely different level. We've taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.

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  Real, Taken, Hippie

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• Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes.

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  Joy, Emotion, Sometimes

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• Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language.

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  World, Matter, Language

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• This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level.

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  Self, Levels, Ascent

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• I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.

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  Thinking, People, Anxiety

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• Worrying is betting against yourself.

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  Worry, Betting

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• Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?

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  Thinking, Expansion, Doe

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• The Internet is the global brain, the cyberspacially connected, telepathic, collective domain that we've all been hungering for.

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  Brain, Internet, Domain

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• Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what's going on.

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  Kind, Obligation

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

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• Science does not deal with subjective experience... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have.

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  Doe, Deals, Wells

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• We don't have to look far for miracles because they're all around us. Everything is astonishing. The universe on it's surface is alive with mystery.

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  Miracle, Looks, Alive

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• Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.

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  Light, Imagination, Empowerment

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• You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.

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  Responsibility, Mind Blowing, Understanding

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

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• You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions. When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.

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  Religious, Clothes, Prejudice

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• If we could feel what we are doing to the Earth, we would stop immediately.

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  Earth, Feels, Ifs

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• Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.

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  Self, Disease, Alcoholism

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• If reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before.

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  Reality, Way, Code

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• When your time is turned into money, the felt presence of immediate experience is analogous to being enslaved. I mean, let's be frank about it, it is enslavement.

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  Mean, Frank, Felt

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• You're immortal as long as you live.

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  Long, Immortal

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• You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.

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  Our World, Ideas, Dmt

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• But technology is the real skin of our species. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last five hundred years, is an extruder of technological material. We take in matter that has a low degree of organization; we put it through mental filters, and we extrude jewelry, gospels, space shuttles. This is what we do. We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects. All our tool making implies our belief in an ultimate tool. That tool is the flying saucer, or the soul, exteriorized in three-dimensional space.

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  Real, Technology, Animal

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

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• To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.

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  Animal, Imagination, Mind

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• Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.

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  Enlightenment, Culture, Barriers

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• The only real experience that counts, is your own.

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  Real

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• I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture you build, what kind of art, what kind of technologies... What's lacking in the Western mind is the sense of connectivity and relatedness to the rest of life, the atmosphere, the ecosystem, the past, our children's future. If we were feeling those things we would not be practicing culture as we are.

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  Life, Art, Children

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