Terence McKenna Quotes
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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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Nothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement. So it's very important to actually listen to your own intuition rather than driving through it.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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Mind conjures miracles out of time.
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It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other.
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Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension.
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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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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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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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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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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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Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.
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National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.
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Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved.
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What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs.
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?
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What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.
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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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History is the siren song of the soul.