Terence McKenna Quotes
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The reason for the emphasis on shamanism and on other techniques is, you will need techniques if you go into the deep water. And they can make your life very simple and save you from unnecessary suffering. Not all suffering is necessary. Maybe no suffering is necessary.
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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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National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.
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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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The testimony of DMT, for me, is that there is a nearby dimension, teeming with intelligences, that from one of the more conservative perspectives seems like an ecology of souls.
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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 way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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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 only real experience that counts, is your own.
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There's only the integrity of doing and having done.
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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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History is the siren song of the soul.
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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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Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.
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Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.
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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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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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What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs.
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Thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations.