Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 6

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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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• Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.

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  People, Fiction, Form

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• Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.

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  Our World, World, Assumption

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• And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.

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  Data, Felt, Primaries

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• In cyberspace things are built out of light.

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  Light, Cyberspace, Built

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• It seems to me that information is the thing which uses matter, uses light, uses spirit, uses whatever it can put its hands on to organize itself into higher and higher levels of self-reflection.

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  Reflection, Self, Hands

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

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  Future, Gun, Civilization

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• What is needed is a spirit of boundary dissolution, between individuals, between classes, sexual orientations, rich and poor, man and woman, intellectual and feeling toned types. If this can happen, then we will make a new world. And if this doesn't happen, nature is fairly pitiless and has a place for us in the shale of this planet, where so many have preceded us.

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  Men, Class, Feelings

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• The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.

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  Lying, Men, Imagination

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• The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human
  being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.

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  Facts, Psychedelic, Astronaut

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• Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature
  is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. Shamanism has always known this,
  and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the
  path required allies. These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the
  mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that
  nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until
  it is now nearly too late.

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  Teaching, Expression, Understanding

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• Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.

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  Needs, Facts, Theory

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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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• How do we fight back? By creating art.

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  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

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  Life, Dream, Collective Effort

  Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham (2001). “Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness”, p.48, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless singing.

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  Thinking, Long, Singing

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• There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.

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  Struggle, Angel, Historical

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• The surface of things is not where attention should rest.

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  Inspirational, Life, Attention

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• The only difference between a drug and a computer is that one is slightly too large to swallow. ... And our best people are working on that problem, even as we speak.

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  Differences, People, Drug

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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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• 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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• Language betrays,
  in order to mean.

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  Mean, Order, Language

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• Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.

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  Steps, Bondage, Greater

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• Our medium is meat, but we are made of information.

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  Meat, Information, Made

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