Terence McKenna Quotes
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The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.
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Eschaton comes from the Greek word 'echatos', which just means the end.
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We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.
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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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What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.
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I'm not an advocate of drugs. I'm an advocate of psychedelics.
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What is happening, I think, it's really bigger than psychedelics, it's bigger than human evolution. We are not making the waves in this ocean. We are corks, riding the waves of the ocean. But we are privileged, by perhaps chance alone, to occupy a unique moment in the history of the universe. A moment when the universe goes through some kind of self-transforming, evolutionary, inflationary expansion. That's what's happening.
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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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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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Culture is your operating system.
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There is nobody who is so enlightened that they don't need to work on themselves.
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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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The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.
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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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Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is both mind and matter, which can do anything.
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People are concrescences of ambiguity.
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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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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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Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.
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Only responsible human beings can exist in an anarchistic society.
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Mind conjures miracles out of time.
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I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.
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National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.
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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.