Terence McKenna Quotes
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Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.
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History is anomalous, and there is no way to get used to it.
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National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.
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For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.
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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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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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Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!
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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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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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What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs.
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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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I'm not an advocate of drugs. I'm an advocate of psychedelics.
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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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Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.
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Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most.
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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History is the siren song of the soul.
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Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?
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Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved.