Terence McKenna Quotes
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Flying saucers are nothing more than miracles, and they occur essentially to bedevil science.
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Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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Technique to me is a kind of a ... I'm reluctant to talk about it because it seems so obvious to me what good technique is. I mean, you sit down, you shut up, and you pay attention is basically the good technique. And then the footnotes add; on an empty stomach, in a dark room, feeling comfortable.
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Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy.
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If reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before.
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Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy.
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So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.
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If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.
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There is a belief that there is a hyperobject called Overmind, or God, that casts a shadow into time. History is our group experience if this shadow. As one draws closer and closer to the source of the shadow, the paradoxes intensify, the rate of change intensifies. What is happening is that the hyperobject is beginning to ingress into three-dimensional space.
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Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.
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We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from drought and weather, freedom from the movement of game, the growth of plants, freedom from control from mendacious popes and kings, freedom from ideology, freedom from want. This idea of freeing ourselves has become the compass of the human journey.
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Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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We can understand first of all that what is happening in the world of becoming, the world we all experience as beings, is that novelty is entering into being, and it is changing the modalities of the real world toward greater and greater levels of integration.
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What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.
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One has, you know, a window of opportunity somewhere between zip and a hundred to solve, or understand, or penetrate, or appreciate, or come to terms with the conundrum of being, this amazing circumstance in which we find ourselves, both individually and collectively.
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It seems to me that information is the thing which uses matter, uses light, uses spirit, uses whatever it can put its hands on to organize itself into higher and higher levels of self-reflection.
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The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information
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The psychedelic universe, whatever it is, is the major datum of experience. It's larger than this planet. Nobody knows how large it is. The further in you go the bigger it gets. We don't know what to make of something like that. It's the reverse of our expectations.
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It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
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The race isn't to the swift, it's to the thoughtful.
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The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice and the privacy of the individual mind.
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Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience.
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Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.