Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

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.

Terence McKenna

• Wish
• Drug
• Motivated
• Assuming
• Psychedelic
• Courageous
• Mundane
• Archetype
• Wholeness

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• You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.

  

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• Yeah, I kind of grew up in front of the camera: I started modeling when I was two.

  

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• I don't see myself as someone that brings a lot of luggage.

  

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• Up until now, I had ideas that I wanted to try but didn't have the opportunity to do them.

  

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• Nothing of value is free. It is very easy, Mr. Chairman, to convince people that it is in their best interest to give away somebody else's property for nothing, but even the most guileless among us know that this is a cave of illusion where commonsense is lured and then quietly strangled.

  

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• All emotions are the ore from which poetry may be sifted.

  

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• Technology is now part of the social fabric; it is what is causing dislocation. It is the cause of fear amongst all of us.

  

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• I'm very humbled and honored. I'm very thankful to the Asian-American Community for all their support!

  

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• C'mon. He'd be embarrassing upstairs at the White House. So I think she'd have a hard time. I think a woman president would have to be very conservative to get elected.

  

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• Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.

  

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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.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Wish
  • Drug
  • Motivated