Terence McKenna Quotes
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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The Gaian process is more than a process. It is s self-reflecting entelechy of some sort.
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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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What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless singing.
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It's as important to be well informed in this area, if you're going to do it, as it is to be well informed about procedures in skin diving and that sort of thing if you're going to do that.
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The reason for the emphasis on shamanism and on other techniques is, you will need techniques if you go into the deep water. And they can make your life very simple and save you from unnecessary suffering. Not all suffering is necessary. Maybe no suffering is necessary.
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Culture is your operating system.
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Thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations.
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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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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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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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We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights - or a leap to an entirely different level. We've taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.
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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 human brain is the god of technological innovation.
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Each stage of cosmic development proceeded more quickly than the stage which preceded it.
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I'm not an advocate for everything that rolls out of the laboratory. I'm an advocate for things sanctioned by millennia of usage.
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.
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A great turning point is in the offing. The world is changing. It's changed before, but not for a long time in our lives, not since before our lives. But now it's changing, and there are many many possibilities.
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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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Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made.
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DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic.
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But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.
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We live in condensations of our imagination