Terence McKenna Quotes
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If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.
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One reaches through to the continents and oceans of the imagination, worlds able to sustain anyone who will but play, and then lets the play deepen and deepen until it is a reality that few would even dare to entertain...The human imagination is the holographic organ of the human body, and we don't 'imagine' anything. We simply see things so far away that there is no possibility of validating or invalidating their existence.
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History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.
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If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's an absence of consciousness that is making this historical transition so excruciating.
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Obviously, it's some kind of freely commanded modality in the psyche with which we can have a relationship if we will but evolve a control language and a dialogue. And it remains mysterious.
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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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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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I started out in psychedelic drugs, and people said it was a flight from reality. It still is a flight from reality, but I think reality is now a bit more scary than the drugs we used to fly from it, so long ago.
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Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension.
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We love to congratulate ourselves on the forward-leaning liberal society that we live in, and the truth is it's a bunch of rattle snake-handling fundamentalists that are much closer to Stalin than they are to FDR or anybody else like that.
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To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.
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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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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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An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.
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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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Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.
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The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are precisely the tendencies in our psychological makup that the psychedelics mitigate. The plant hallucinogens dissolve habits and hold motivations up to inspection by a wider, less egocentric, and more grounded point of view within the individual.
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The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself.
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Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved.
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.
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There is nobody who is so enlightened that they don't need to work on themselves.
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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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History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.