Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 12

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• Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to produce, not consume, media.

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  Media, Needs, Our Society

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• Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

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  Philosophy, Branches, Shamanism

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• Once you get to this place on what we might metaphorically call your spiritual quest, once you get to the place where you hear about psychedelics, the issue is no longer then about where is the gas peddle on the spiritual vehicle. The issue suddenly becomes, where is the brake? Because this is the fuel to go where you want to go. This is the power to lift you where you want to be lifted.

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  Spiritual, Issues, Might

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• In the silence, in the darkness, swept away by these alien alkaloids and the plant-mind behind them, you find out a truth that can barely be told. And most of it can't be told.

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  Silence, Darkness, Mind

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• I'm not an abuser. It takes me a long time to assimilate each experience. And I never have lost my respect for it. I mean I really feel dread. It is one of the emotions I always feel as I approach it, because I have no faith that my sails won't be ripped this time.

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  Mean, Long, Emotion

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• The real nature of our predicament is completely opaque to us.

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  Real, Opaque, Predicaments

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• To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.

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  Thinking, Understanding, Enterprise

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• I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me happy.

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  Believe, Reality, Working Very Hard

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• The movement of a single atom from one known position to another known position changes an experience from nothing to overwhelming. This means that mind and matter at the quantum mechanical level are all spun together.

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  Mean, Mind, Together

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

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• To contact the cosmic giggle, to have the flow of casuistry begin to give off synchronistic ripples, whitecaps in the billows of the coincidental ether, if you will. To achieve that, a precondition is a kind of unconsciousness, a kind of drifting, a certain taking-your-eye-off-the-ball, a certain assumptions that things are simpler than they are, almost always precedes what Mircea Eliade called ‘the rupture of plane’ that indicates that there is an archetypal world, an archetypal power behind profane appearances.

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  Eye, Giving, Balls

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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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  Believe, Ideas, Giving

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• The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.

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  Unique, Self, Molecules

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• History is rooted in the future

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  Historical, Rooted

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• ‎The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.

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  Wisdom, Moving, Inward

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• This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all about, we are edge-walking on an ontological transformation of what it means to be human.

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  Mean, Drug, Facts

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• Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter.

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  Inspirational, Life, Secret

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• Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types today don't understand that it's not important to maintain control if you are not in control in the first place.

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  Losing Control, Views, Important

  Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham (2001). “Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness”, p.50, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are precisely the tendencies in our psychological makup that the psychedelics mitigate. The plant hallucinogens dissolve habits and hold motivations up to inspection by a wider, less egocentric, and more grounded point of view within the individual.

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  Motivation, Views, Drug

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

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• A global society is coming into being, a global society that is made out of information that was not intended to be ours, but is ours, by the mistaken invention of computers and the printing press, information is power, and information has spilled by the clumsy hands of the dominator culture so that the information is everywhere, never before has the situation been so fluid, we might be able to finally have a crack at this

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  Information Is Power, Hands, Cracks

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• A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

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  Fall, Teaching, Reality

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• Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.

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  Moving, Animal, Dmt

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• It seems to me far more likely that an advanced civilization would communicate inter dimensionally and telepathically.

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  Civilization, Communicate, Seems

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• Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.

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  Alive, Earth, Matter

  "True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival".

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• I think that's the job of each of us - to show our best toys and our best tricks that lift us and our friends to higher and higher levels. There is no end to this bootstrapping process. The future of the human mind and body and the future of humans together is endlessly bright.

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  Jobs, Thinking, Mind

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