Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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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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You're immortal as long as you live.
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History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.
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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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For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.
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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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At still higher doses psilocybin triggers this activity in the language-forming capacity of the brain that manifests as song and vision. Psilocybin may have synergized the emergence of higher forms of psychic organization out of primitive protohuman animals. It can be seen as a kind of evolutionary enzyme, or evolutionary catalyst.
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Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension.
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There is a morphological enfoldment occurring on this planet. It is bringing forth some entirely new order of being. We are a privileged part of this.
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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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I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language develops, and therefore regulate human culture generally.
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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 way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.
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Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.
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History is anomalous, and there is no way to get used to it.
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I'm not an advocate of drugs. I'm an advocate of psychedelics.
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I connect the psychedelic dimension to the dimension of inspiration and dream.
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The mind is the cutting edge of the evolving event system.
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This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say that the universe, nature, is a novelty-conserving, or complexity-conserving engine.
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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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What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs.
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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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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.