Terence McKenna Quotes
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Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience.
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You know what, I'm stoned, and I'm proud.
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The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.
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Each stage of cosmic development proceeded more quickly than the stage which preceded it.
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It's a relationship like to a crusty Zen master, or something like that. And it is really like another entity because you cannot predict the answers.
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I'm not an abuser. It takes me a long time to assimilate each experience. And I never have lost my respect for it. I mean I really feel dread. It is one of the emotions I always feel as I approach it, because I have no faith that my sails won't be ripped this time.
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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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I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.
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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 good news about psychedelics is that they are incredibly democratic. Even the clueless can be swept along if the dose is sufficient.
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Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.
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The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.
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History is anomalous, and there is no way to get used to it.
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These things which are made of light and grammar and sound that come chirping and squealing and tumbling toward you. 'Hooray! Welcome! You're here!', and in my case, 'You send so many and you come so rarely!'
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When we really understand time travel we may find out it's as common as dirt and has been going on all around us is all kinds of physical processes.
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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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We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the future - we are going hyper-spatial; we are claiming a whole new dimension for biology that it never claimed before. We are actually becoming a fourth-dimensional kind of creature. Our future is somehow with us, as we seem to be able to move through metamorphosis into our own imaginations - a super civilization spread throughout space and time. Our future is a mystery, our destiny is to live in the imagination.
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There is a morphological enfoldment occurring on this planet. It is bringing forth some entirely new order of being. We are a privileged part of this.
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Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language.
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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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I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.
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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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By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.
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The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.