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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I finally realized that this 'place' that I kept bursting into on a psychedelic experience was somebody's idea of a playpen.
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Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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This is the key. If you get into deep water with these substances, this is true of psilocybin as well, you don't want to clench, you don't want to assume the fetal position and stop breathing. You want to sit up straight and breathe, and sing, and sing it back, and it will step back. You can take control of your situation ... most of the time.
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The possibility seems to be that what we call styles, or what we call motifs, are actually categories in the unconscious.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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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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Because I believe psychedelics are a kind of higher dimensional sectioning of reality, I think they give the kind of stereoscopic vision necessary to hold the entire hologram of what's happening in your mind. The old paradigm is gone.
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The only evil that associates itself with mushrooms is taking too little.
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A singularity is a place where the rules are broken. A miracle is a singularity.
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We cannot evolve faster than our language. The edge of being is the edge of meaning, and somehow we have to push the edge of meaning. We have to extend it.
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If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us to connect and reconnect the contents of the collective mind in ever more implausible, beautiful, and self-fulfilling ways.
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And science, when it examines psychedelics, as it will and must, is going to discover a revolution, I believe, that will put all the previous revolutions in perspective.
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Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human situation, new ideas are coming to the fore. Psilocybin is a selective filter for this. The wish to go to space is a selective filter for this. Just the wish to know your own mind is a selective filter for this.
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And certainly when I reached La Chorerra in 1971 I had a price on my head by the FBI, I was running out of money, I was at the end of my rope. And then “THEY” recruited me and said, “you know, with a mouth like yours there's a place for you in our organization“. And I've worked in deep background positions about which the less said the better. And then about 15 years ago they shifted me into public relations and I've been there to the present.
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It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.
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Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.
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I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
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The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.
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Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture.
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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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We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the evolution of language.
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It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind.