Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 7

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

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Attention

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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.

  Terence McKenna

  Voice, Hands, World Religions

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• We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.

  Terence McKenna

  Dropping Out, Psychedelic, Dropping

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

  Terence McKenna

  Eye, Dimensions, Transcendental

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• Every click of the cosmic clock
  brings us closer to the process
  for which the planet called us into existence.

  Terence McKenna

  Clock, Process, Clicks

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• Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while plants hold fast. Plants live in a dimension characterised by solid state, the fixed and the enduring. If there is movement in the consciousness of plants then it must be the movement of spirit and attention in the domain of vegetal imagination. (...) This is the truth that the shamans have always known and practiced. Awareness of the green side of mind was called Veriditas by the twelfth century visionary Hildegard Von Bingen.

  Terence McKenna

  Moving, Animal, Vegetables

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• To my mind this makes psychedelics central to any political reconstruction, because these are the only force in nature that actually dissolve linguistics structures; lets the mechanics of syntax to be visible, allows the possibility for rapid introduction and spread of new concepts; gives permission for new ways of seeing; and this is what we have to do, we have to change our minds.

  Terence McKenna

  Giving, Political, Mind

  "History Ends in Green". Terence McKenna's eight-hour lecture at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, www.youtube.com. 1989.

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

  Terence McKenna

  Steps, Bondage, Greater

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• You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.

  Terence McKenna

  Two, Interesting, Ego

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• Language betrays,
  in order to mean.

  Terence McKenna

  Mean, Order, Language

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• There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules

  Terence McKenna

  Spiritual, Simple, Tasks

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

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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.

  Terence McKenna

  Reflection, Self, Hands

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

  Terence McKenna

  Lying, Men, Imagination

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

  Terence McKenna

  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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• 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.

  Terence McKenna

  Needs, Facts, Theory

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• This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we are in the grip of an attractor of some sort, which lies ahead of us in time.

  Terence McKenna

  Lying, Believe, Historical

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• The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.

  Terence McKenna

  Manipulation, Prey

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• The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.

  Terence McKenna

  Giving Up, People, Drug

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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.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Long, Singing

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• It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.

  Terence McKenna

  Ocean, Easy

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

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• Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind.

  Terence McKenna

  Real, Mind, Psychedelic

  "Technopagans at the End of History". Terence McKenna's speech at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, August 1998.

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• Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort, and ignore. That is that nature is some kind of minded entity. That nature is not simply the random flight of atoms through electromagnetic fields. Nature is not the empty, despiritualized , lumpen matter that we inherit from modern physics. But it is instead a kind of intelligence, a kind of mind.

  Terence McKenna

  Discovery, Mind, Atoms

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

  Terence McKenna

  Meat, Information, Made

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• Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified, hardwired.

  Terence McKenna

  Ideas, Imagination, Cyberspace

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• Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

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