Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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It seems to me far more likely that an advanced civilization would communicate inter dimensionally and telepathically.
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The thing that is so powerful about the psychedelics is that they perform on demand, which almost in principle you cannot expect of a mystical experience because that would be essentially man ordering God at man's whim, which is not how it's supposed to work.
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In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones.
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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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Wherever we press beyond the thin curtain of rationalist culture, we discover the incredibly rich, erotic, scary, promising presence of this intelligent Other, that beckons us out of history, and says, you know: 'The galaxy lies waiting.'
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The western mind, because of it's unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics.
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The shaman is a very peculiar figure. He is critical to the functioning of the psychological and social life of his community, but in a way he is always peripheral to it. He lives at the edge of the village. He is only called upon in matters of great social crisis. He is feared and respected. And this might be a description of these hallucinogenic substances.
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Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort, and ignore. That is that nature is some kind of minded entity. That nature is not simply the random flight of atoms through electromagnetic fields. Nature is not the empty, despiritualized , lumpen matter that we inherit from modern physics. But it is instead a kind of intelligence, a kind of mind.
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So when you look at the eschaton what you see, strangely enough, is your own face.
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The only real experience that counts, is your own.
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The human brain is the god of technological innovation.
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I believe that what makes the psychedelic experience so central is that it is a connection into a larger modality of organization on the planet, which is a fancy way of saying it connects you up to the mind of Nature Herself.
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What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.
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To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.
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Thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations.
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We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being.
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You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.
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There has been no progress in 60,000 years in reducing the psychedelic experience to a known quantity. It is as terrifying, as awesome, as ecstatic, as irreducible to us as it was to them.
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Culture is your operating system.
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It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.
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...the mind is more powerful than any imaginable particle accelerator, more sensitive than any radio receiver or the largest optical telescope, more complete in its grasp of information than any computer: the human body- its organs, its voice, its powers of locomotion, and its imagination- is a more-than-sufficient means for the exploration of any place, time or energy level in the universe.
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Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes.
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The apocalypse is the millennium, and the psychedelics move you into the future.