Terence McKenna Quotes
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Each stage of cosmic development proceeded more quickly than the stage which preceded it.
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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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Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it's not necessarily some kind of 'Be Here Now' feel-good thing because it doesn't always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It's primary.
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Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.
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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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National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.
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The only real experience that counts, is your own.
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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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The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.
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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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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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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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History is the siren song of the soul.
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There's only the integrity of doing and having done.
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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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Thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations.
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Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.
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What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs.
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What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.
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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.