Terence McKenna Quotes
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You're immortal as long as you live.
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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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The only real experience that counts, is your own.
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Eschaton comes from the Greek word 'echatos', which just means the end.
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I'm not an advocate of drugs. I'm an advocate of psychedelics.
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The state in the matter of drugs should not, any more than in the matter of sex, act as the secret agent for the agenda of the church.
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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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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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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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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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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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Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension.
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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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The Gaian process is more than a process. It is s self-reflecting entelechy of some sort.
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Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.
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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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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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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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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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We love to congratulate ourselves on the forward-leaning liberal society that we live in, and the truth is it's a bunch of rattle snake-handling fundamentalists that are much closer to Stalin than they are to FDR or anybody else like that.
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I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.
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We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being.