Terence McKenna Quotes About Dying

Quotes about: Dying

• We are told No, you're unimportant, you're peripheral - get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you're a player. You don't even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that's being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.

  Terence McKenna

  Jobs, Player, Games

  "Reclaim Your Mind". Part of the Terence McKenna's lecture "Eros and the Eschaton", www.youtube.com. 1984.

• The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

  Terence McKenna

  Confusion, Mind Blowing, Dying

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

• So what needs to be done is to spread the idea that anxiety is inappropriate. It's sort of like we who are psychedelic have to function as sitters for society, because society is going to thrash, and resist, and think it's dying, and be deluded, and regurgitate unconscious material, and so forth and so on. And the role then, I think, for psychedelic people is to try and spread calm.

  Terence McKenna

  Thinking, Ideas, People

• If you're truly psychedelic the difference between living and dying is quite immaterial. No pun intended.

  Terence McKenna

  Differences, Dying, Psychedelic

• In shamanism and certain yogas, Taoist yoga, claim very clearly that the purpose is to familiarize yourself with this after-death body, in life, and then the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche. You will recognize what is happening. You will know what to do. And you will make the clean break.

  Terence McKenna

  Yoga, Confusion, Dying

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