Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 8

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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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• In cyberspace things are built out of light.

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  Light, Cyberspace, Built

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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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• 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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• 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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• The Internet is light at the end of the tunnel. I don't care if it's being used to peddle pornography, I don't care if it's being trivialized in a thousand ways. Anything can be trivialized. The important point is that it is leveling the playing field of global society. It is creating de-facto an entirely new set of political realities. None of the constipated, oligarchic structures that are resisting this were ever asked. Their greed betrayed them into investing in this in the first place without ever fully grasping what the implications of it were for their larger agenda.

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  Reality, Tunnels, Light

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• Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture.
  Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.

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  Responsibility, Thinking, Culture

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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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• I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature as the central metaphor that we want to work out from. Because I think literature occupies the same relationship to life that life occupies to death. A book is life with one dimension pulled out of it. And life is something that lacks a dimension which death will give it. I imagine death to be a kind of release into the imagination in the sense that for characters in a book, what we experience is an unimaginable dimension of freedom.

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  Book, Character, Thinking

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• All time is is how much change you can pack into a second.

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  All Time, Packs

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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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• Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.

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  Struggle, Eden, Stories

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• The mind is a far bigger domain than we ever imagined.

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  Mind, Bigger, Domain

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• We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort.

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  Pipeline, Neurosis, Absence

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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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• I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.

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  People, Mind, Psychedelic

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• When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.

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  Art, Void, Dimensions

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• It's meanings that we need to coax into our lives.

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  Needs, Our Lives

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• Psychedelic experiences and dreams are chemical cousins; they are only different in degree.

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  Dream, Cousin, Degrees

  Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham (2001). “Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness”, p.15, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• [This legendary Amazonian substance is] a cybernetic transdimentional medium of some sort that is generated out of the mysteries of the physiology of the human body.

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  Substance, Body, Mystery

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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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• The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.

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  Culture, Path, Language

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• Cyberspace is the human transition into a mathematical super space where we as a collectivity become optionally a single point of view.

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  Views, Space, Transition

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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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• There is a sort of fair play, and if you can get in touch with that in your life, if you can have that perception, the world will begin to work for you, it will begin to move toward you... Nature loves courage, and it shows you that loves courage because it will remove obstacles.

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  Moving, Play, Perception

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