Terence McKenna Quotes
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You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
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The Truth doesn't need your cooperation to exist. All forms of cult, all forms of hype, all forms of delusion do require your participation in order to exist. I've looked into marginal areas of human experience -historical and otherwise- with a rational mind, and what I've found is that doorways into the miraculous are far fewer than the publicists of the New Age would have us believe. On the other hand, they are not as rare as the proponents of radical reductionism and materialism would have us believe. There are doorways out of the mundane.
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The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature.
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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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The Gaian mind is what were calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet - and without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies. But with that experience the compass of the self can be set.
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We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.
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There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental.
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Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it's not necessarily some kind of 'Be Here Now' feel-good thing because it doesn't always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It's primary.
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Safety is really a concern of mine, and what I've been telling people recently is that until there's animal and human data on a drug it should probably be looked at very carefully.
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What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.
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Time is a series of fluctuating variables.
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The central figure in the archaic revival is the shaman.
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Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.
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I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.
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You will ride the Tao toward the concrescence and will be able to live in the light of its anticipation.
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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.
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In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.
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Television, introduced at the close of World War II, has become a form of electronic heroin, and it isn't even your trip. They don't even let you go on your own trip, you get a trip designed by Madison Avenue.
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So when you look at the eschaton what you see, strangely enough, is your own face.
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This is a very central part of the psychedelic attitude toward the world, to entertain all possibilities but to never commit to belief. Belief always being seen as a kind of trap, because if you belief something you are forever precluded from believing its opposite.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.
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The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.