Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 3

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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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• 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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• 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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• Cultures are virtual realities made of language.

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  Reality, Culture, Language

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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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• Worrying is betting against yourself.

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  Worry, Betting

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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 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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• The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.

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  Rumor, Knows, Felt

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• We live in condensations of our imagination

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  Imagination, Condensation

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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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• As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

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  Eye, Darkness, Bonfire

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• What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.

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  Civilization, People, Mind Blowing

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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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• You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.

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  Mind Blowing, Secret, Blowing It

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

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  Real

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• Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it's not necessarily some kind of 'Be Here Now' feel-good thing because it doesn't always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It's primary.

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  Memories, Real, Feel Good

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• The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.

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  Artist, Journey, Self

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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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• 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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• There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.

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  Age, Illusion, Compare

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• You're immortal as long as you live.

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  Long, Immortal

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• If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.

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  Weed, Pursuit Of Happiness, Marijuana

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• Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.

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  Ego, Mind Blowing, Culture

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