Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 7

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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.

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  Two, Interesting, Ego

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• These religions that are so freighted with their own pomposity are no better than inspired guesses.

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  Inspired, Pomposity

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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.

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  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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• So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.

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  Mean, Thinking, Unanswered Questions

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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.

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  Ocean, Easy

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

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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.

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  Giving Up, People, Drug

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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

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  Spiritual, Simple, Tasks

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

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• I have a skeptical and cranky side, and I'm forever puzzled why people believe the, seeming to me, dumb things that they choose to believe.

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  Believe, People, Forever

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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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• 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.

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  Lying, Believe, Historical

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

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  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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• Although whenever you have intelligent life in the presence of large explosions, a safe bet is that the intelligent life is responsible for the large explosion.

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  Intelligent, Safe, Life Is

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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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• We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being.

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  Needs, Metaphor

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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.

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  Ideas, Imagination, Cyberspace

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• In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.

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  Mean, Culture, Definitions

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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.

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  Discovery, Mind, Atoms

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• This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about.

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  Unique, Civilization, Language

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• We cannot evolve faster than our language. The edge of being is the edge of meaning, and somehow we have to push the edge of meaning. We have to extend it.

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  Language, Faster, Evolve

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• You know what, I'm stoned, and I'm proud.

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  Proud, Knows

  "True Hallucinations". Book by Terence McKenna, 1989.

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• Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.

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  Life, Lying, Self

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• DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic.

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  Dmt, Magic, Add

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• No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions.

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  Attitude, Atmosphere, West

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

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  Inspirational, Life, Nature

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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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