Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 6

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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 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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• 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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• Psychedelics are not flashlights into the chaos of the Freudian unconscious, they are tools for mathematically unpacking your mind into a higher dimensional space. In the Newtonian and print created space that we are walking around in you, are like a self extracting archive, that hasn't self extracted itself yet.

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  Self, Space, Mind

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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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• 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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• If I can paraphrase Teilhard de Chardin for a moment, he said, or I will paraphrase in this way, 'When the human race understands the potential of the hallucinogenic drug experience, it will have discovered fire for the second time.'

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  Fire, Race, Drug

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

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  Process, Objects

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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 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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• How do we fight back? By creating art.

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  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• It seems to me far more likely that an advanced civilization would communicate inter dimensionally and telepathically.

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  Civilization, Communicate, Seems

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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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• Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.

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  Our World, World, Assumption

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• We are, in fact, hyper-dimentional objects of some sort which cast a shadow into matter, and the shadow in matter is the body. And at death, what happens basically, is that the shadow withdraws, or the thing which cast the shadow withdraws, and metabolism ceases, and matter which had been organized into a dissipative structure in a very localized area, sustaining itself against entropy by cycling material in and degrading it and expelling it, that whole phenomenon ceases, but the thing which ordered it is not affected by that.

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  Cycling, Shadow, Body

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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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