Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

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.

Terence McKenna

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• I always knew I was destined for greatness.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
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• It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, we make our irrevocable decisions.

  

  Marcel Proust
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• People were destined for one another; that's the romantic idea that young girls have, and I guess part of me still believes it.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
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• Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you're more liable to find yourself reminded of simple things you know and forgot you knew - seeing them freshly - old, basic truths that long ago became cliches, so you stopped paying attention to them.

  

  Ann Shulgin
  • Attention
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• Some people are just destined to be together. That's just the way it is.

  

  Amy Davis
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  • Destined

• The use of drugs like mescaline may serve an appropriate purpose. Indeed, "Psychedelic" drugs have been widely used in the spiritual traditions of the world, including the Yoga of Patanjali, though they were never advertised as ultimate keys to enlightenment, merely as stepping-stones on the spiritual path.

  

  Georg Feuerstein
  • World
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• There are some races more cultured and advanced and ennobled by education than others; but there are no races nobler than others. All are equally destined for freedom.

  

  Alexander von Humboldt
  • Freedom
  • Races
  • Destined

• With psychedelics, if you're fortunate and break through, you understand what is truly of value in life. Material, power, dominance, and territory have no value. People wouldn't fight wars, and the whole system we have currently would fall apart. People would become peaceful, loving citizens, not robots marching around in the dark with all their lights off.

  

  Gary Fisher
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• The more confidence you have in yourself and the more you believe that you are destined to do what you are gonna do, it will happen.

  

  Michelle Rodriguez
  • Believe
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  • Destined

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

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Psychedelic

• Part of what the psychedelic point of view represents is living a certain portion of your life without answers. Just accepting that certain dilemmas will never resolve themselves into some kind of a complete answer. That's why psychedelics are so different from any system being sold, from one of the great elder systems like Christianity, to the latest cult out of Los Angeles.

  

  Terence McKenna
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• I think that what these psychedelics do, is they actually do connect you to the whole circle. You stand outside of the moment from which you embarked on your psychedelic experience, and you see eternity like a vast landscape deployed in front of you. So what I think psychedelics are is they're about time, and they somehow make all time co-present.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Moments
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• This is a general comment that you should take a committed dose of whatever it is you're taking so that there is no ambiguity, because there's nothing worse than a sub-threshold psychedelic experience.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Committed
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  • Comment

• The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Social
  • Clear
  • Consequence

• Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Psychedelic
  • Telepathy

• We have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition of the power of the psychedelic experience. The psychedelic experience is the birth right of every human being on the planet. It is as much a basic part of each and every one of us as our sexuality, our national identity, our consciousness of self. And any society which attempts to hold back or impede this dimension of self-expression, when the history of that society is written, it will be called barbarous.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Culture
  • Identity
  • Consciousness

• The psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Kind
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  • Psychedelic

• Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one which is confirmed by the psychedelic experience.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Ideas
  • Form
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• My generation isn’t tolerant of what they see as fake or staged. They’re looking for authenticity and honesty. Journalists who want to reach them need to be able to say, ‘I don’t personally have all the answers, but I do have a good idea about where we’ll find them.'

  

  Nicole Lapin
  • Honesty
  • Generation
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• Sex is our deepest form of consciousness. It is utterly non-ideal, non-mental. It is pure blood-consciousness.... It is the consciousness of the night, when the soul is almost asleep.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Sex

• 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.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Psychedelic
  • Destined
  • Prehistoric