Terence McKenna Quotes
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We love to congratulate ourselves on the forward-leaning liberal society that we live in, and the truth is it's a bunch of rattle snake-handling fundamentalists that are much closer to Stalin than they are to FDR or anybody else like that.
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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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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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If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's an absence of consciousness that is making this historical transition so excruciating.
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The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.
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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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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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Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved.
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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Thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations.
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What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs.
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The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.
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National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.
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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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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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There's only the integrity of doing and having done.
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History is the siren song of the soul.
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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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Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.
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Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.
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Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most.