Terence McKenna Quotes
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Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.
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You're immortal as long as you live.
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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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Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.
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The central point about the psychedelic experience is the content of the experience. And this has been occluded or obfuscated by the behavioral and statistical and scientific methods that have been brought to bear to study hallucinogenic experience.
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Mind conjures miracles out of time.
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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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What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs.
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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 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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National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.
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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 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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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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Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved.
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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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Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?
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Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most.