Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 5

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• Nothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement. So it's very important to actually listen to your own intuition rather than driving through it.

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  Inspirational, Life, Missing

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• We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.

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  Years, Style, Heirs

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• Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.

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  Reality, Sea, Moments

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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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• Don't worry. You don't know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin' out loud. It's a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.

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  Thinking, Worry, Waste

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• One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.

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  Buddhist, Keys, Attention

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• What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.

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  Gentleman, Tables, Eras

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• My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.

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  Believe, Opposites, Mind Blowing

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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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• We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.

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  Children, Culture, World

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• I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.

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  Life, Thinking, Toxic

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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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• So you know what we have to do is stop looking for leadership from the top, because the least among us make their way into those positions of power... So what we have to do is knock off this fantasy of being citizens inside a democratic state, I mean, what we are, are the propagandized masses inside a fascist dictatorship.

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  Mean, Position Of Power, Citizens

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• I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.

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  Life Is Like, Life Is, Cannabis

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• ...the mind is more powerful than any imaginable particle accelerator, more sensitive than any radio receiver or the largest optical telescope, more complete in its grasp of information than any computer: the human body- its organs, its voice, its powers of locomotion, and its imagination- is a more-than-sufficient means for the exploration of any place, time or energy level in the universe.

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  Powerful, Mean, Voice

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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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• The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.

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  Self, Two, Mystery

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• The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.

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  Night, Drawing, Long

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• Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

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  Future, Gun, Civilization

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• And what we're looking toward is a moment when the artificial language structures which bind us within the notion of ourselves are dissolved in the presence of the realization that we are a part of nature. And when that happens, the childhood of our species will pass away, and we will stand tremulously on the brink of really the first moment of coherent human civilization.

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  Civilization, Childhood, Passing Away

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• If you actually look at the etymology of the word 'hallucination', what it's come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That's the meaning of 'hallucination', to wander in the mind.

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  Mean, Mind, Looks

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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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• 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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• 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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• What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should be put aside.... This is I think much of the problem of the modern dilemma: Direct experience has been discounted, and in its place all kinds of belief systems have been erected.... If you believe something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite; which means that a degree of your human freedom has been forfeited in the act of committing yourself to this belief.

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  Faith, Believe, Mean

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