Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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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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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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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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An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.
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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 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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Only responsible human beings can exist in an anarchistic society.
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I'm not an advocate of drugs. I'm an advocate of psychedelics.
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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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Each stage of cosmic development proceeded more quickly than the stage which preceded it.
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The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.
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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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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 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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We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being.
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What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.
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Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?
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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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I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
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Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.
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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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The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.