Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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What is needed, is an awakening.
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I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.
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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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Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.
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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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We love to congratulate ourselves on the forward-leaning liberal society that we live in, and the truth is it's a bunch of rattle snake-handling fundamentalists that are much closer to Stalin than they are to FDR or anybody else like that.
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What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird 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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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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National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.
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What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.
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The Gaian process is more than a process. It is s self-reflecting entelechy of some sort.
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History is the siren song of the soul.
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As I see it, Being, the Cosmos, whatever you want to call it, is a struggle between two implacable forces: Novelty on the one side and habit on the other side.
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You know what, I'm stoned, and I'm proud.
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Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.
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I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.
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Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most.
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Thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations.