Terence McKenna Quotes
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The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself.
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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 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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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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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved.
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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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The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.
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Thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations.
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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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For all we know, we know nothing.
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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
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What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs.
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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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Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most.
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The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.
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Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?
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History is the siren song of the soul.
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National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.
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Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.