Terence McKenna Quotes
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History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.
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Information is just simply bootstrapping itself to higher and higher levels of self-reflection and self-coordination using whatever means are necessary.
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Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.
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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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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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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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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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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 '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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Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.
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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 history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of.
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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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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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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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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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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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Eschaton comes from the Greek word 'echatos', which just means the end.
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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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I'm not an advocate of drugs. I'm an advocate of psychedelics.
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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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Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension.
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Thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations.