Terence McKenna Quotes
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Don't worry. You don't know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin' out loud. It's a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.
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Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.
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We are all cells of a much larger body, and like the cells of our own body it is hard for us to glimpse the whole pattern of the whole of what is happening, and yet we can sense that there is a purpose, and there is a pattern.
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It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable.
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Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.
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The Internet is the global brain, the cyberspacially connected, telepathic, collective domain that we've all been hungering for.
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People are, in the confines of their own apartments, becoming Magellans of the interior world and reaching out to this alien thing and beginning to map it and bring back stories that can only be compared to the kind of stories that the chroniclers of the New World brought back to Spain at the close of the 15th century.
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This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we are in the grip of an attractor of some sort, which lies ahead of us in time.
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I regard these people who are peddling angst and peddling pessimism and all that stuff as so 'two minutes ago'.
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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.
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Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types today don't understand that it's not important to maintain control if you are not in control in the first place.
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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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The momentum now is inevitable. Now it's about each of us individually arranging the furniture of our own mind to deal with what has become inevitable.
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Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.
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The other night I searched (the Web) for 'self-transforming elf machines.' There were 36 hits! It surprised me. I sort of use the search engine like an oracle. I've used the phrase for DMT, 'Arabian hyperspace.' So I thought of this, and then I searched it, 'Arabian hyperspace,' in quotes. And it took me right to a transcript of the talk in which I'd said the thing! You can find your own mind on the Internet. I'm very grateful to the people who type up my talks and then post them at their websites.
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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.
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What the churches are peddling is high abstraction, and you really have to work yourself up into a lather to be able to accept that as worthy of that kind of attention. The psychedelic subset of society is into an experience, and it's accessible.
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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.
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My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.
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The data stream has been corrupted, return to first principles.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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What is needed, is an awakening.
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Biology seems to be a chemical strategy for amplifying quantum mechanical indeterminacy so that it leaves the subatomic realm and can be present in a hundred and forty five pound block of meat.