Terence McKenna Quotes
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.
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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 always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.
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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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Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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History is the siren song of the soul.
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The only real experience that counts, is your own.
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I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.
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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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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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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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What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.
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Thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations.
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You know what, I'm stoned, and I'm proud.
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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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The Gaian process is more than a process. It is s self-reflecting entelechy of some sort.
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Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most.
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What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs.