Terence McKenna Quotes About Magic

Quotes about: Magic

• Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

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  Dream, Teacher, Commitment

• The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.

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  Real, Mind Blowing, Magic

  "Alien Dreamtime". Live multimedia event in San Francisco, February 27, 1993.

• Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.

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  Life, Magic, Paganism

• The shaman is a person who is able to transcend the dimensional confines of cultural existence. They know more than the people they serve. The people they serve are like children within the game of culture. Only the shaman knows that culture is a game. Everyone else takes it seriously. That's how he can do his magic.

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  Children, Games, People

• Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed

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  Art, Names, Ego

• DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic.

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  Dmt, Magic, Add

• This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

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  Mind Blowing, Magic, Bed

• This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in a voice which causes facts to be beheld by groups of people in a way that has been purged from profane language, for us relegated to poetry and that sort of thing.

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  Voice, People, Magic

• Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men and women, parents and children, people and animals, human institutions and the land all were in dynamic balance and not in any primitive sense at all. Language was fully developed, poetry may have been at its climax, dance, magic, poetics, altruism, philosophy. There's no reason to think that these things were not practiced as adroitly as we practice them today and it was under the boundary dissolving influence of psilocybin.

  Terence McKenna

  Children, Philosophy, Men

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