Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.
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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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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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Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension.
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What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs.
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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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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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It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.
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Mind conjures miracles out of time.
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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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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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By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other.
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National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.
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Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?
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Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved.
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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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What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most.