Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 11

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• The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.

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  Men, Sick, Mind Blowing

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• Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.

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  Lying, Smart, People

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• Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.

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  Self, Disease, Alcoholism

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• Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans.

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  Best Laid Plans, Roving, Able

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• We have changed. We are no longer, as I said, bipedal monkeys. We are instead a kind of cybernetic coral reef of organic components and inorganic technological components.

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  Monkeys, Coral Reefs, Kind

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• Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.

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  Reality, Sea, Moments

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• It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know... You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You'll have that!

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  Dmt, Want, Example

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• I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.

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  Thinking, Preparation, Marathon

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• Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

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  Consistency, Mind, Small Minds

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• No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions.

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  Attitude, Atmosphere, West

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• To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.

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  Two, Rebel, Tasks

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• There is this persistent theme in all of these notions that death is made more easy, whatever that means, if you've learned the territory before you get there. And you know, in the Mahayana Buddhist situation it even becomes as extreme as saying; 'life is essentially a preparation for death, a studying of the maps of a learning of the skills a packing of your picnic basket so that when you get out there and demons are sniffing you up one side and down the other you don't bungle your mantras'.

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  Buddhist, Mean, Skills

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• We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from drought and weather, freedom from the movement of game, the growth of plants, freedom from control from mendacious popes and kings, freedom from ideology, freedom from want. This idea of freeing ourselves has become the compass of the human journey.

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  Kings, Moon, Journey

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• Only psychos and shamans create their own reality

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  Reality, Psycho

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• The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

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  Life, Dream, Collective Effort

  Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham (2001). “Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness”, p.48, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• As I see it, Being, the Cosmos, whatever you want to call it, is a struggle between two implacable forces: Novelty on the one side and habit on the other side.

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  Struggle, Two, Cosmos

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• Ayahuasca loves to take prideful people and rub their nose in it. I mean it can make you beg for mercy like nothing. You have to really approach it humbly.

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  Mean, Ayahuasca, People

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• This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about.

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  Unique, Civilization, Language

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• When we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward toward the futile promise of life that circles distant stars in order to still our cosmic loneliness. We should look within; the paths of the heart lead to nearby universes full of life and affection for humanity.

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  Stars, Loneliness, Heart

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

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• All information is everywhere. Information that is not here is nowhere.

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  Information

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

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• What the churches are peddling is high abstraction, and you really have to work yourself up into a lather to be able to accept that as worthy of that kind of attention. The psychedelic subset of society is into an experience, and it's accessible.

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  Church, Attention, Able

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• I do not think that the government, under the guise of some phony, alarmist, pseudo-scientific rhetoric, should attempt to control the evolution of consciousness. After all, if these things truly are consciousness-expanding, it doesn't take too much intelligence to realize that it is the absence of consciousness that is causing our flirtation with extinction and planetary disaster.

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  Thinking, Government, Extinction

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• Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet

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  Inspirational, Life, Nature

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• The message coming back at all of us is: live without closure.

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  Messages, Closure, Coming Back

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• The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.

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  Life, Nature, Fall

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