Terence McKenna Quotes
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I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language develops, and therefore regulate human culture generally.
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The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
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The human brain is the god of technological innovation.
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Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.
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I'm not an advocate of drugs. I'm an advocate of psychedelics.
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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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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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The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.
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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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What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs.
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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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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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History is anomalous, and there is no way to get used to it.
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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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As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.
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You're immortal as long as you live.
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Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension.
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Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.
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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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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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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 mind is the cutting edge of the evolving event system.
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I connect the psychedelic dimension to the dimension of inspiration and dream.
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The central point about the psychedelic experience is the content of the experience. And this has been occluded or obfuscated by the behavioral and statistical and scientific methods that have been brought to bear to study hallucinogenic experience.