Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 15

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• No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night.

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  Dark, Night, Interesting

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• Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.

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  Life, Religious, Feelings

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

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• The smart people who are straight are involved in simply the media management of what has turned into a slow apocalypse, spreading starvation, exacerbated class differences, toxified agriculture, so forth and so on. I don't believe the Establishment thinks there are solutions. Their policy is basically the management of panic, which is hardly a forward moving approach to the adventure of human civilization.

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  Smart, Moving, Believe

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• Time will perfect matter.

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  Perfect, Matter

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• It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue, and Hollywood, and what have you.

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  People, Hollywood, Culture

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• I'm fascinated by hallucinations. I mean, to me that is the sina qua non that you're getting somewhere.

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  Mean, Hallucinations, Fascinated

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• The reason I am so passionately committed to the psychedelic thing is because I see it as radical, and if this is not the moment for radical solutions, what is?

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  Psychedelic, Moments, Reason

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• What is happening, I think, it's really bigger than psychedelics, it's bigger than human evolution. We are not making the waves in this ocean. We are corks, riding the waves of the ocean. But we are privileged, by perhaps chance alone, to occupy a unique moment in the history of the universe. A moment when the universe goes through some kind of self-transforming, evolutionary, inflationary expansion. That's what's happening.

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  Ocean, Unique, Thinking

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• The plants are the pipeline into the Gaian intention. It's just not a coincidence that these plants carry this immense spiritual message. They are the pipeline of Gaian intentionality.

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  Spiritual, Pipeline, Messages

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• Shamanism, on the other hand, is this world wide, since Paleolithic-times, tradition which says that you must make your own experience the center piece of any model of the world that you build.

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  Hands, Pieces, World

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• One reaches through to the continents and oceans of the imagination, worlds able to sustain anyone who will but play, and then lets the play deepen and deepen until it is a reality that few would even dare to entertain...The human imagination is the holographic organ of the human body, and we don't 'imagine' anything. We simply see things so far away that there is no possibility of validating or invalidating their existence.

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  Ocean, Reality, Play

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• The reason for the emphasis on shamanism and on other techniques is, you will need techniques if you go into the deep water. And they can make your life very simple and save you from unnecessary suffering. Not all suffering is necessary. Maybe no suffering is necessary.

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  Simple, Deep Water, Suffering

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• People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.

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  People, Neurosis, Existential

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• We are like caterpillars contemplating pupation.

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  Caterpillars, Contemplating

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• What I'm talking about is actually is the Mystery of Being as existential fact. That there is something that haunts this world that can take apart and reduce every single one of us to a mixture of terror and ecstasy, fear and trembling. It is not an idea, that's the primary thing to bear in mind. It's an experience.

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  Talking, Ideas, Mind

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• Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.

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  Stones, Tradition, Shamanism

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• Without sounding too cliché, the Internet really is the birth of some kind of global mind.

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  Mind, Birth, Internet

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

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• Time is a topological manifold. It is a surface. Events flow across it like water over land and like water flowing over land, when the land is flat, the water becomes reflective and moves slowly. When the landscape becomes disrupted, the water moves faster and chaotic attractors appear and new kinds of activity emerge and out of that new activity, there comes the new states that define the future.

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  Moving, Land, Water

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• The Germans take quite a knock for the holocaust, but the Catholic church manages to push more people into death, disease, and degradation every year than the holocaust managed in its entire show. And it's thought rather crass to even mention the fact. It seems to me that as long as these Catholic bishops can show their face in public that we are in complicity with mass murder.

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  Years, Long, People

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• I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.

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  Book, Drug, Burning

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• Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.

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  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself.

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  Care, Belief, Obligation

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• Inside the boundaries of the old paradigm there's no hope, there's no way out of the box of capitalism, monogamy, consumer fetishism, egoism, money worship, no way out. No way. No way out!

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  Way, Worship, Boundaries

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• We have outlived this embryo, this human cradle, and now it's time to be up and about the great business of becoming citizens of the galaxy and at home with our own heart.

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  Home, Heart, Citizens

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• The real truth is splintered and spread throughout time.

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  Real, Truth Is, Spread

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