Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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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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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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Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.
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You're immortal as long as you live.
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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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I'm not an advocate of drugs. I'm an advocate of psychedelics.
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Think about this for a moment, we grow so inured to these religious forms, think about the notion of instituting at the center of your religion a rite where you eat your god is probably a memory of a relationship to some kind of a psychedelic experience of some sort.
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It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it is.
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Eschaton comes from the Greek word 'echatos', which just means the end.
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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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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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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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The Gaian process is more than a process. It is s self-reflecting entelechy of some sort.
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Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.
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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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Mind conjures miracles out of time.
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The 'person' is not an interchangeable part. The 'citizen' is. ... The person is harking back to a pre-print model. It's what the hippies were.
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The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.
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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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The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of.
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By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other.
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For all we know, we know nothing.