Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 10

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• Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.

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  Intellectual, Taste, Ninety

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• The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it's not treated - if there's not pharmacological intervention - it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.

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  Personality, Ego, Problem

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• In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.

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  People, Psychedelic, Sexuality

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• Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind.

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  Real, Mind, Psychedelic

  "Technopagans at the End of History". Terence McKenna's speech at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, August 1998.

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• A long long time ago I took an oath to tell all secrets that came my way. Don't tell me a secret, I won't keep it. I'm against secrets, I'm against hierarchies, lineages, all assumption of special knowledge on the part of anyone in the presence of anyone else is abhorrent to me. I mean, I am a true anarchist first and foremost.

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  Mean, Long, Secret

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• People have a right to get stoned. They have a right to think and explore their own minds. This is as intimate a part of their being as their sexuality. Any culture which mitigates that is clearly afraid of a full and fair and open dialogue about what reality is and what real human values ought to be.

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  Real, Thinking, People

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• The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.

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  Creativity, Artist, Doctors

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• The psychedelic experience is the beginning of the spiritual path. That's why it's not important that yogas' claim that they can deliver you the psychedelic experience, because it begins with the psychedelic experience, and then you go from there.

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  Spiritual, Yoga, Important

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• If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.

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  Civilization, Names, Imagination

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• One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.

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  Mental Illness, Absence, Shamanism

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• Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

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  Inspirational, Life, Nature

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• Psychedelics can carry you farther and faster than most people care to go. Once you get to psychedelics, it's no longer a matter of seeking the answer, you have found the answer. Now the issue changes dramatically, you must face the answer.

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  Issues, People, Answers

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• Only responsible human beings can exist in an anarchistic society.

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  Responsible, Humans, Human Beings

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• The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.

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  Space, Mind, Three

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• The mind is the cutting edge of the evolving event system.

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  Cutting, Mind, Events

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• The way out then is personal responsibility, new operating systems downloaded from outside of culture, which means from the deeper wisdom of the psychedelic plants and then a commitment to community and a motto of "To the future, without fear!" Without fear!

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  Mean, Commitment, Responsibility

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• The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.

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  Drug, Helping, Shamanism

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• 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

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• I think the entire message of the psychedelic experience, which is basically the sine qua non of the rebirth of alchemical understanding, the very basis of that understanding is that nature seeks to communicate.

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  Thinking, Understanding, Messages

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• The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.

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  Lying, Men, Imagination

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• Thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations.

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  Thinking, Welcome, Social

  Interview with Tom Hodgkinson (1993) as quoted in Tom Hodgkinson "How to be idle", 2004.

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• The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.

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  Long, Miracle, Predicaments

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• The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.

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  Tools, Inspection, Immense

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• It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.

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  Law, World, Levels

  "Terence Mckenna's Last Trip". WIRED Inteview, www.wired.com. May 1, 2000.

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• The content of the dialogue with 'the Other' is a content that indicates that man's horizons are infinitely bright, that death is in fact, well, as Thomas Vaughn put it, 'the body is the placenta of the soul'

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  Men, Soul, Horizon

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