Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 5

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• It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other.

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  Intelligent, Causes, Language

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• History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.

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  Animal, Years, Stories

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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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• 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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• You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.

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  Art, Two, Mind

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• Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.

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  Our World, Names, Dmt

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• Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy.

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  Games, Miracle, Energy

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• I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them.

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  Jobs, Real, Believe

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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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• The Logos is a voice heard, in the head. And the Logos was the hand on the rudder of human civilization for centuries, up until, in fact, the collapse of the ancient mystery religions and the ascendancy of Christianity to the status of a world religion.

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  Voice, Hands, World Religions

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• What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.

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  Ignorance, Historical, Progress

  "Psychedelic Society". Terence McKenna's speech at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, February 1984.

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• Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness

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  Our World, Dmt, Mind Blowing

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• The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.

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  Self, Drug, Toxic

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• We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.

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  Years, Strive, Unspeakable

  "The Transcendental Object at the End of Time/ Taglines". www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental.

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  Eye, Dimensions, Transcendental

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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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• The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice and the privacy of the individual mind.

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  Religious, Issues, Rights

  Terence McKenna (2010). “Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge”, p.255, Random House

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• Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.

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  Life, Magic, Paganism

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• We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.

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  Perfect, Becoming, Microcosm

  "Psychedelic Society". Terence McKenna's speech at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, February 1984.

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• Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.

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  Destiny, Thinking, Body

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

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• The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.

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  Reality, World, Fields

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• You aren't an object. You're a process of some sort.

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  Process, Objects

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• Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up.

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  Dream, Commitment, Dmt

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• You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your purpose? To add to the complexity. Your enemy? Disorder, entropy, stupidity, and tastelessness.

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  Cutting, Years, Stupidity

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• Biology seems to be a chemical strategy for amplifying quantum mechanical indeterminacy so that it leaves the subatomic realm and can be present in a hundred and forty five pound block of meat.

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  Block, Meat, Pounds

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