Terence McKenna Quotes
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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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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If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's an absence of consciousness that is making this historical transition so excruciating.
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It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.
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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
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Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.
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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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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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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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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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Thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations.
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Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved.
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History is the siren song of the soul.
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What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs.
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Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?
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Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.
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National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.
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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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There's only the integrity of doing and having done.