Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 19

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• I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky.

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  Believe, Issues, Tacky

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• There is a morphological enfoldment occurring on this planet. It is bringing forth some entirely new order of being. We are a privileged part of this.

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  Order, Planets, Privileged

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• The current operating system [culture] is flawed. It actually has bugs in it that generate contradictions. We're cutting the earth from beneath our own feet. We're poisoning the atmosphere that we breathe. This is not intelligent behaviour. This is a culture with a bug in its operating system that's making it produce erratic, dysfunctional, malfunctional behaviour. Time to call a tech! And who are the techs? The shamans are the techs.

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  Cutting, Intelligent, Feet

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• What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.

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  Effort, Balance, Way

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• The real truth that dare not speak itself, is that no one is in control, absolutely no one... Nobody is in control. This stuff is ruled by the equations of dynamics and chaos. Now, there may be entities seeking control - the World Bank, the Communist Party, the rich, the somebody-or-others - but to seek control is to take enormous aggravation upon yourself... It's like trying to control a dream.

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  Dream, Real, Aggravation

  "Dreaming Awake at the End of Time". Terence McKenna's speech in San Francisco, www.youtube.com. December 13, 1998.

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• We now know enough to fantasize realistically about what the alien would be like, and I think that this then sets up polarities in the collective psyche that previously we have only seen at the level of the individual.

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  Thinking, Would Be, Levels

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• I regard these people who are peddling angst and peddling pessimism and all that stuff as so 'two minutes ago'.

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  Two, People, Stuff

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• It puts people who are into this psychedelic thing in an entirely different stance from all other spiritual seekers, because all other spiritual seekers are furiously seeking. Psychedelic people are holding it back with all their power, because they are in the presence of the mystery. And then the trick is to get a spigot on it so that it can be turned on and off rather than coming at you like a tidal wave a mile high and twenty miles wide.

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  Spiritual, People, Twenties

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• It's possible to see the whole human growth movement of the 1970s as a wish to continue the inward quest without having to put yourself on the line in the way you had to when you took 250 gamma of LSD. And I think all these other methods are efficacious, but I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off.

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  Thinking, People, Growth

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• I connect the psychedelic dimension to the dimension of inspiration and dream.

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  Dream, Inspiration, Dimensions

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

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• History is a series of approximations of the final singularity.

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  Finals, Singularity, Series

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• Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while plants hold fast. Plants live in a dimension characterised by solid state, the fixed and the enduring. If there is movement in the consciousness of plants then it must be the movement of spirit and attention in the domain of vegetal imagination. (...) This is the truth that the shamans have always known and practiced. Awareness of the green side of mind was called Veriditas by the twelfth century visionary Hildegard Von Bingen.

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  Moving, Animal, Vegetables

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• If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's an absence of consciousness that is making this historical transition so excruciating.

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  Taken, Historical, Transition

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• The "just say no" campaign at this point is a lot like drawing sea-monsters over certain unexplored areas of the map and expecting people to stay away. It may work for some, but explorers live for this kind of thing.

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  Sea, Drawing, People

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• Man was not put on this planet to toil in the mud. Or the god who put us on this planet to toil in the mud is no god I want to have any part of. It's some kind of gnostic demon. It's some kind of cannibalistic demiurge that should be thoroughly renounced and rejected.

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  Men, Toil, Want

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• The other night I searched (the Web) for 'self-transforming elf machines.' There were 36 hits! It surprised me. I sort of use the search engine like an oracle. I've used the phrase for DMT, 'Arabian hyperspace.' So I thought of this, and then I searched it, 'Arabian hyperspace,' in quotes. And it took me right to a transcript of the talk in which I'd said the thing! You can find your own mind on the Internet. I'm very grateful to the people who type up my talks and then post them at their websites.

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  Grateful, Night, Self

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• What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.

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  Decadence

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• Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed

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  Art, Names, Ego

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• Standing outside the cultural hysteria the trend is fairly clear. It is a trend toward temporal compression and the emergence of ambiguity.

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  Hysteria, Trends, Standing Out

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• Think about this for a moment, we grow so inured to these religious forms, think about the notion of instituting at the center of your religion a rite where you eat your god is probably a memory of a relationship to some kind of a psychedelic experience of some sort.

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  Religious, Memories, Thinking

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• But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.

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  World, End Of The World, Ends

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• For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.

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  Animal, Glory, Humans

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• Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.

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  Imagination, Psychedelic, Involvement

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• Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.

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  Ego, Males, Population

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• Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved.

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  Novelty, Boundaries, Situation

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