Terence McKenna Quotes
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What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
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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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What is needed, is an awakening.
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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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Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience.
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You're immortal as long as you live.
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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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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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For all we know, we know nothing.
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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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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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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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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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It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.
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And the psychedelics, I believe, are the key to moving from wearing culture like cloths to recognizing that culture is this intensifying reflection of an aspect of the self and integrating it into the self.
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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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Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved.
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The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.
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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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Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension.
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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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History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.
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To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.