Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 2

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• If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.

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  Self, Civilization, Ego

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• We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights - or a leap to an entirely different level. We've taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.

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  Real, Taken, Hippie

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• Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

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  Men, Environment, Deaf

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• How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?

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  Self, Knows

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• I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.

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  Thinking, People, Anxiety

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• The truth for sure,
  when it arrives,
  will make you smile.
  If it doesn't,
  you should seek
  a deeper truth.

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  Make You Smile, Should, Deeper

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• The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.

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  Real, Adventure, Giving

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• What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.

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  Real, Imagination, Library

  "Trialogue #24: The Heavens (Terence McKenna, R. Sheldrake, R. Abraham)". Terence McKenna's speech at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, www.youtube.com. 1992.

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• You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions. When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.

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  Religious, Clothes, Prejudice

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• Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.

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  Silly, People, Mind Blowing

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• Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.

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  Expansion, Plot, Culture

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• I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.

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  Inspirational, Life, Believe

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• Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension.

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  Preparation, Transition, Dimensions

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• Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.

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  Light, Imagination, Empowerment

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• To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.

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  Animal, Imagination, Mind

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• We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.

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  Museums, Perception, World

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• Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.

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  Secret, Behinds

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• I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture you build, what kind of art, what kind of technologies... What's lacking in the Western mind is the sense of connectivity and relatedness to the rest of life, the atmosphere, the ecosystem, the past, our children's future. If we were feeling those things we would not be practicing culture as we are.

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  Life, Art, Children

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• We are going through the eye of the needle; make sure you leave what you don't need behind

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  Eye, Needs, Needles

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• The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.

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  Imagination, Pathways, Golden

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• This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else's being you can't be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism. The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news.

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  Emotional, Long, Culture

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• Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?

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  Inspirational, Life, Attitude

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• The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.

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  Darkness, Bigger, Bonfire

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• You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.

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  Responsibility, Mind Blowing, Understanding

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

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• Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.

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  Ego, Mind Blowing, Culture

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