Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes
Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality.
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I played music practically my entire life. But the first time I ever really played music was with John and Robby and Jim That's where it happened. it was an epiphany, a moment of profound clarity
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The Jetsons had them in the 1960s. They were the defining element of 'Knight Rider' in the 1980s: cars that drive themselves. Self-driving cars appear in countless science fiction movies. By Hollywood standards, they are so normal we don't even notice them. But in real life, they still don't exist. What if you could buy one today?
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Your fingers smell of incense—a lover sings to the corpse of his dead sweetheart.
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I, uh, don't think it's quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
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Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time it was called 'The Global Villages for Symphonic Pieces', because it was a piece built out of 53 simple patterns and the structure was new to music at that time.
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I think that people are generally really terrible at being ambassadors of their own work.
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I think if you're happy and you're a nice person and you have a nice personality that always shines through.
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You can’t come back. It was written like this, meant to be like this and you can’t change destiny. What happened was because it had to happen. I had great moments in my life and I’m happy with what I achieved.
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A good attitude for a woman is to be confident, and to be confident is to be natural.
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Tuvalu's future at current levels of global warming is already bleak. Any further temperature increase will spell its total demise.
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There has been no progress in 60,000 years in reducing the psychedelic experience to a known quantity. It is as terrifying, as awesome, as ecstatic, as irreducible to us as it was to them.
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You may miss the end of the world, but you definitely are going to have a front row seat for the end of your world.
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History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.
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I think with the work we do with these drugs we are the earliest pioneers in what over the next 100 years will lead to an understanding of consciousness almost as a thing apart from the monkey body and brain.
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Now we have food networks and everything. CNN was the beginning of all of that.
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I'm a Progressive. Much in the same way our founding fathers - who, oddly enough, wouldn't get elected today - were Progressives.
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The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in an atmosphere of continuous unfolding of understanding, so that every day you know more and see into things with greater depth than you did before. This is a process of education.
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Think about this for a moment, we grow so inured to these religious forms, think about the notion of instituting at the center of your religion a rite where you eat your god is probably a memory of a relationship to some kind of a psychedelic experience of some sort.
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All of you who have been through high dose psychedelic experiences know that it's very hard to carry stupid baggage through that keyhole. In fact you're lucky if you just get your soul and yourselves through and intact.
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I'm trying to build an empire, because after this, I cannot get a normal job.
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Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality.
