Terence McKenna Quotes
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I'm not an advocate of drugs. I'm an advocate of psychedelics.
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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 testimony of DMT, for me, is that there is a nearby dimension, teeming with intelligences, that from one of the more conservative perspectives seems like an ecology of souls.
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It puts people who are into this psychedelic thing in an entirely different stance from all other spiritual seekers, because all other spiritual seekers are furiously seeking. Psychedelic people are holding it back with all their power, because they are in the presence of the mystery. And then the trick is to get a spigot on it so that it can be turned on and off rather than coming at you like a tidal wave a mile high and twenty miles wide.
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Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
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Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?
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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 think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.
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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 Gaian process is more than a process. It is s self-reflecting entelechy of some sort.
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Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!
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I think that's the job of each of us - to show our best toys and our best tricks that lift us and our friends to higher and higher levels. There is no end to this bootstrapping process. The future of the human mind and body and the future of humans together is endlessly bright.
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Only responsible human beings can exist in an anarchistic society.
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It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.
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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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The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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Eschaton comes from the Greek word 'echatos', which just means the end.
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The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.
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Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it's not necessarily some kind of 'Be Here Now' feel-good thing because it doesn't always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It's primary.
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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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But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.
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Mind conjures miracles out of time.
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It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.