Terence McKenna Quotes
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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'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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History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.
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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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At still higher doses psilocybin triggers this activity in the language-forming capacity of the brain that manifests as song and vision. Psilocybin may have synergized the emergence of higher forms of psychic organization out of primitive protohuman animals. It can be seen as a kind of evolutionary enzyme, or evolutionary catalyst.
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Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.
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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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Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.
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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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History is anomalous, and there is no way to get used to it.
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What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs.
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I'm not an advocate of drugs. I'm an advocate of psychedelics.
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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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For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.
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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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Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension.
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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.
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The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.
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The mind is the cutting edge of the evolving event system.
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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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For all we know, we know nothing.
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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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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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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.