Terence McKenna Quotes
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The only real experience that counts, is your own.
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So when you look at the eschaton what you see, strangely enough, is your own face.
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It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.
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The state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent for the agenda of the church.
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Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work.
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Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.
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Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made.
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Reality itself is not static. This is one of the things that the psychedelic is trying to put across, that the reality we're embedded in is itself some kind of an organism and is evolving toward a conclusion.
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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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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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You aren't an object. You're a process of some sort.
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What people notice about when they are on LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.
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It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other.
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One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
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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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Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to produce, not consume, media.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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I have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what I call unhappiness. It isn't for that.
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We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.
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To me, the most amazing the most amazing transformation in my lifetime is not the revolution of the Sixties but the counter revolution of the Seventies, where they managed to put the cuckoo clock back together again
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Nothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement. So it's very important to actually listen to your own intuition rather than driving through it.
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A global society is coming into being, a global society that is made out of information that was not intended to be ours, but is ours, by the mistaken invention of computers and the printing press, information is power, and information has spilled by the clumsy hands of the dominator culture so that the information is everywhere, never before has the situation been so fluid, we might be able to finally have a crack at this
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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 I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless singing.