Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 17

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• I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a form of communication that is both psychedelic and telepathic; a model for the human communications of the future. In the not-too-distant future men and women may shed the monkey body to become virtual octopi swimming in a silicon sea.

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  Believe, Communication, Swimming

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

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• Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to tolerate its splendor. It can't just reveal itself openly because we would be forfeited; we'd never know what hit us.

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  Touching, Would Be, Able

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• The testimony of DMT, for me, is that there is a nearby dimension, teeming with intelligences, that from one of the more conservative perspectives seems like an ecology of souls.

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  Dmt, Perspective, Soul

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• What the psychedelics are for us as a species, rather than for each one of us as an individual, what they are for us as a species is an enzyme that catalyzes the language-making capacity.

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  Enzymes, Language, Individual

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• We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being.

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  Needs, Metaphor

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• And what is shamanism but philosophy with a hands-on attitude. Philosophy not made around the camp fire, but philosophy based on the acquisition of extreme experience. That's how you figure out what the world is, not by bicycling around in the burbs, but by forcing extreme experience.

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  Attitude, Philosophy, Fire

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• In a sense, what's happening is that the unconscious mind is a luxury the human species cannot afford at this point in our dilemma, and so the unconscious mind is simply rising into consciousness by being hardwired into this global infrastructure.

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  Luxury, Mind, Rising

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• We [psychonauts] are all going to go into the books as pioneers, because it's too early for us to be anything else. There's no map, no finished database, just anecdotes of the crazy, crazy stuff that goes on. That's why it's so important to try and share [our stories].

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  Crazy, Book, Important

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• LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same since, nor will we ever be, for LSD demonstrated, even to skeptics, that the mansions of heaven and gardens of paradise lie within each and all of us.

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  Lying, Garden, Heaven

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• We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us.

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  Alarms, Invasion, Ufo

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• I really think there is a very large distinction between synthetic and naturally occurring drugs. ... I think that these plants 'take people' as much as people take the plants. ... When you take one of these ancient, ancient hallucinogens you are locking in to the morphogenetic fields of all the people who ever took it.

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  Thinking, People, Drug

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• No one yet understands the mysterious intelligence within plants or the implications of the idea that nature communicates in a basic chemical language that is unconscious but profound. We do not yet understand how hallucinogens transform the message in the unconscious into revelations beheld by the conscious mind.

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  Ideas, Profound, Mind

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• And that we cannot go to space with our feet in the mud. Nor can we in fact turn ourselves into an eco-sensitive hallucinogenic-based culture on Earth unless we fuse these dichotomous opposites. It is only in a coincidencia oppositorum, a union of opposites, that does not strive for closure, that we are going to find cultural sanity. And this is the thing that the entheogens, the hallucinogens, deliver with such clarity and regularity. They raise paradox to a level of intensity that no one can evade.

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  Opposites, Feet, Space

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• It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind.

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  Mind, Becoming, Understood

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• Actually, the highest form of human organization is not realized in the democratic individual. It is realized in a dimension none of us have ever penetrated, which is the mind of the species, which is actually the hand at the tiller of history. . . . It is an organized entelechy of some sort, and human history is its signature on the primates.

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  Hands, Organization, Mind

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• 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.

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  Children, Philosophy, Men

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• The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being.

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  Reality, Mind, Primaries

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

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• To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality.

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  Reality, Trying, Psychedelic

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• Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made.

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  Real, Hands, Choices

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• And I don't mean this metaphorically. I want to be taken seriously as proposing that the ennui of modernity is the consequence of a disruptive symbiotic relationship between ourselves and vegetable nature.

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  Taken, Mean, Vegetables

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• We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort.

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  Pipeline, Neurosis, Absence

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• Well, you could almost say, I suppose, that the scientist seeks what is similar between any two days, or bluebirds, or glaciers. And the poet seeks what is different. The artist seeks to celebrate the unique.

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  Artist, Unique, Two

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• There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a very complex environment.

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  People, Hierarchy, Environment

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• Even a billion people is too much. There's no way back to the simplicity we once knew, but there may be a way forward to the simplicity that we once knew.

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  Way Forward, People, Simplicity

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• By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.

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  Space, Phases, Psychedelic

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