Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 4

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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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• 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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• Mind conjures miracles out of time.

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  Miracle, Mind

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• Cultures are virtual realities made of language.

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  Reality, Culture, Language

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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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• There is nobody who is so enlightened that they don't need to work on themselves.

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  Needs, Enlightened

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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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• Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants

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  Sacrifice, Ants, Bloody

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• I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there

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  Trying, Eyelids, Behinds

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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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• We have outlived this embryo, this human cradle, and now it's time to be up and about the great business of becoming citizens of the galaxy and at home with our own heart.

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  Home, Heart, Citizens

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• This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else's being you can't be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism. The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news.

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  Emotional, Long, Culture

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• DMT is a reliable method for crossing in to a dimension that human beings have debated the existence of for 50.000 years. Is there an invisible nearby world inhabited by active intelligences with which human beings can communicate? You bet. And if you don't think so, then tell me you don't think so after you've smoked 75mg DMT. Otherwise we just don't have anything to talk about.

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  Thinking, Years, Dmt

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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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• If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.

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  Self, Civilization, Ego

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• Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

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  Ego, Psychedelic, Absence

  "Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution". Book by Terence McKenna, February 1, 1992.

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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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• DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic.

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  Dmt, Magic, Add

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• I believe that the place to search for extraterrestrials is in the psychic dimension.

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  Believe, Psychics, Dimensions

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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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• For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.

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  Self, Talking, Sea

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• There is no knowledge without risk taking.

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  Risk, Risk-taking

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• There’s light at the end of the tunnel. The problem is that tunnel is in the back of your mind. And if you don’t go to the back side of your mind you will never see the light at the end of the tunnel. And once you see it, then the task becomes to empower it in yourself and other people. Spread it as a reality. God did not retire to the seventh heaven, God is some kind of lost continent IN the human mind.

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  Reality, Tunnels, Light

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• Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.

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  Animal, Ideas, Raw Materials

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• Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas

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  Our World, Ideas, Dmt

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