Dmt Quotes

• DMT is a reliable method for crossing in to a dimension that human beings have debated the existence of for 50.000 years. Is there an invisible nearby world inhabited by active intelligences with which human beings can communicate? You bet. And if you don't think so, then tell me you don't think so after you've smoked 75mg DMT. Otherwise we just don't have anything to talk about.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Years, World

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• You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Light

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• Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.

  Terence McKenna

  Government, Information Processing, Mind Blowing

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• We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.

  Terence McKenna

  Ocean, Heart, Moon

  "The Archaic Revival". Book by Terence McKenna, 1991.

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• Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.

  John Lennon

  Mind, Relax, Psychedelic

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• You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.

  Terence McKenna

  Our World, Ideas, Mind Blowing

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• DMT was a gaseous wax that you could smoke that gave you a 20-minute psychedelic high. You'd inhale it. And then when you'd exhale—poof, you'd be high. I saw Buddha, man. I know that sounds like no big deal. But I saw a gigantic holographic Buddha — correct in every way! Buddhas can be very intricate — these drawings that you see in books. Thousands of details were included in this Buddha. Where did they come from? I didn't make them up. I can't even draw, you know? I could barely spell cat, you know? And there it was. And I thought, Wow — the power of the mind, you know?

  Iggy Pop

  Book, Cat, Men

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• DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen there is. If it gets stronger than that I don't want to know about it.

  Terence McKenna

  Powerful, Stronger, Want

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• The testimony of DMT, for me, is that there is a nearby dimension, teeming with intelligences, that from one of the more conservative perspectives seems like an ecology of souls.

  Terence McKenna

  Perspective, Soul, Dimensions

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• When our individual life force enters our fetal body, the moment in which we become truly human, it passes through the pineal and triggers the first primordial flood of DMT.
  Later, at birth, the pineal releases more DMT.
  As we die, the life-force leaves the body through the pineal gland, releasing another flood of this psychedelic spirit molecule.

  Rick Strassman

  Molecules, Body, Firsts

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• Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up.

  Terence McKenna

  Dream, Commitment, Mind Blowing

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• It may be that DMT makes us able to perceive what the physicist call "dark matter" - the 95 per cent of the universe's mass that is known to exist but that at present remains invisible to our senses and instruments.

  Graham Hancock

  Dark, May, Matter

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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.

  Terence McKenna

  Mushrooms, Might, Firsts

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• The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation

  Terence McKenna

  Mind Blowing, Cost, Levels

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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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• Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness

  Terence McKenna

  Our World, Mind Blowing, Consciousness

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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!

  Terence McKenna

  Want, Example, Doe

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• Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas

  Terence McKenna

  Our World, Ideas, Mind Blowing

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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.

  Terence McKenna

  Magic, Add, World

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• If you go to Paris you know more about reality than people who don't. If you smoke DMT you know more about reality than people who don't.

  Terence McKenna

  Reality, Paris, People

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• If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.

  Terence McKenna

  Weed, Pursuit Of Happiness, Marijuana

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• Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.

  Terence McKenna

  Psychedelic, Evolution, Responsible

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• The discovery of DMT in the human body stimulated much less fanfare than did that of endorphins. Anti-psychedelic-drug sentiment sweeping the USA at the time actually turned researchers against studying endogenous DMT. The discoverers of endorphins, in contrast, won Nobel Prizes.

  Rick Strassman

  Discovery, Usa, Drug

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• Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.

  Terence McKenna

  Moving, Animal, Mind Blowing

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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.

  Terence McKenna

  Drug, Events, Intense

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