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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You will ride the Tao toward the concrescence and will be able to live in the light of its anticipation.
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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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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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You're immortal as long as you live.
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We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being.
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But technology is the real skin of our species. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last five hundred years, is an extruder of technological material. We take in matter that has a low degree of organization; we put it through mental filters, and we extrude jewelry, gospels, space shuttles. This is what we do. We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects. All our tool making implies our belief in an ultimate tool. That tool is the flying saucer, or the soul, exteriorized in three-dimensional space.
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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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The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of.
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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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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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Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.
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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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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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Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension.
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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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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 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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Although whenever you have intelligent life in the presence of large explosions, a safe bet is that the intelligent life is responsible for the large explosion.
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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
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Eschaton comes from the Greek word 'echatos', which just means the end.
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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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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.