Terence McKenna Quotes
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One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.
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Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.
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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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It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.
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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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The mind is the cutting edge of the evolving event system.
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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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I connect the psychedelic dimension to the dimension of inspiration and dream.
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If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
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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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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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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.
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History is anomalous, and there is no way to get used to it.
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Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made.
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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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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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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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What you call man is time.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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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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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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But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.
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The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of.