Terence McKenna Quotes
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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 all we know, we know nothing.
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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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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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Mind conjures miracles out of time.
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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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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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Reality itself is not static. This is one of the things that the psychedelic is trying to put across, that the reality we're embedded in is itself some kind of an organism and is evolving toward a conclusion.
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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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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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Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.
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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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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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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved.
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Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?
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What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.
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Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most.