Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 9

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• We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.

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  Intelligent, Mind Blowing, Visionaries

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• It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy.

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  War, Engineering, Years

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• I see the psychedelic experience as both the centerpiece of prehistoric life and destined to be the centerpiece of any future that we want to be part of.

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  Want, Psychedelic, Centerpieces

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• LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.

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  Personality, Different, Lsd

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• Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high or different awareness. They are the exact opposite of drugs. They promote questioning , they promote consciousness, they promote value examinations, they promote the reconstruction of behavioral patterns.

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  Opposites, Addiction, Drug

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• We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.

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  Flames, Mind Blowing, Looks

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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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• [DMT] raises all the questions in a hurry. It's so intense and so oriented toward the other and the visual and the hallucinogenic that it isn't really like a drug. It's more like an event that you ran into. You just came around a corner and there was the unspeakable.

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  Dmt, Drug, Events

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• Skywalker is a direct translation of the word shaman out of the Tungusic, which is where Siberian shamanism comes from. So these heroes that are being instilled in the heart of the culture are shamanic heroes. They control a force which is bigger than everybody and holds the galaxy together.

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  Hero, Heart, Together

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

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• The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information

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  Imagination, Information, Dimensions

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• To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.

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  Thinking, Understanding, Enterprise

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• Psychedelic drugs, especially psilocybin, allow a searchlight to be thrown on these deeper levels of the psyche, as Jung correctly stated. But it is not a museum of archetypes or psychic constructs, as he seemed to assume. It is a frontier of wholeness into which any person, so motivated and so courageous as to wish to do it, can go and leave the mundane plane far behind.

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  Psychics, Museums, Drug

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• What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.

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  Mushrooms, Dmt, Might

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• The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.

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  Luxury, Mind Blowing, Blowing It

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• Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.

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  Intellectual, Taste, Ninety

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• Hallucinogenic plants act as enzymes which stimulate imagination.

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  Imagination, Enzymes, Plant

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• Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole.

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  Sympathy, Black, Events

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• In shamanism and certain yogas, Taoist yoga, claim very clearly that the purpose is to familiarize yourself with this after-death body, in life, and then the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche. You will recognize what is happening. You will know what to do. And you will make the clean break.

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  Yoga, Confusion, Dying

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• Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art.

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  Art, Way, Facts

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• I think that the whole thing, the crux of the whole psychedelic issue, is that it accentuates personal responsibility by making people take their own experiences seriously.

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  Responsibility, Thinking, Issues

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• I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions.

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  Thinking, Understanding, Institutions

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• The mind is the cutting edge of the evolving event system.

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  Cutting, Mind, Events

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• We are an intelligent species caught in an historical process. No generation which proceeded us knew what was going on, and there is no reason to assume that we know what's going on or that the generation which follows us will know what's going on. And what kind of trip is it anyway to insist on knowing what's going on?

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  Intelligent, Knowing, Historical

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• It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know... You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You'll have that!

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  Dmt, Want, Example

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• A singularity is a place where the rules are broken. A miracle is a singularity.

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  Broken, Miracle, Singularity

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