Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 20

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• The possibility seems to be that what we call styles, or what we call motifs, are actually categories in the unconscious.

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  Style, Possibility, Motifs

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• By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other.

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  People, Expectations, Fundamentals

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• Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.

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  Two, Years, Long

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• It's a relationship like to a crusty Zen master, or something like that. And it is really like another entity because you cannot predict the answers.

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  Answers, Masters, Entity

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• It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.

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  Development, Way, Language

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• Time is a series of fluctuating variables.

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  Variables, Series

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• The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be dealt with.

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  Sky, Waiting, Forever

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• I discovered early in life a stunning truth that's made my life very complicated in its wake, but that I still think is true, and it's that people are very easy to love.

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  Thinking, People, Complicated

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• We must look to the native healers all over the world and study their methods... Their methods are chemical and personal. It's a combination of care, attention, intention and chemistry that allows consciousness to be made malleable and recast in other forms.

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  Looks, Attention, World

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• Could any symbol be any more appropriate of the ambiguity of human transformation? What mushroom is it that grows at the end of history? Is it Stropharia cubensis, or is it the creation of Edward Teller? This is an unresolved problem.

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  Mushrooms, Transformation, Problem

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• Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of this complex of ecstasy now is the word comfort, a tremendously bloodless notion. Drugs are not comfortable, and anyone who thinks they are comfortable or even escapist should not toy with drugs unless they’re willing to get their noses rubbed in their own stuff.

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  Thinking, Empathy, Joy

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• One way of assessing the toxicity of a drug is how do you feel the next day?

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  Next Day, Drug, Way

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• Although whenever you have intelligent life in the presence of large explosions, a safe bet is that the intelligent life is responsible for the large explosion.

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  Intelligent, Safe, Life Is

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• Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.

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  Together, Culture, Becoming

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• What we call three dimensional space, and what we call the imagination actually have a contiguous and continuous transformation from one into the other, ... and THIS is big news!

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  Space, Imagination, Three

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• That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.

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  Mind, Organized, Core

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• It's getting funnier because everybody's categories are disintegrating, and the cult of political correctness dictates that we never point out that other people don't make sense.

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  People, Political, Categories

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• Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience.

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  Psychedelic, Psychedelic Experience, Involved

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• Flying saucers are nothing more than miracles, and they occur essentially to bedevil science.

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  Miracle, Flying, Flying Saucers

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• We can't sell short the spiritual power of cannabis, especially when eaten.

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  Spiritual, Cannabis, Spiritual Power

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• The good news about psychedelics is that they are incredibly democratic. Even the clueless can be swept along if the dose is sufficient.

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  Clueless, News, Democratic

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• The race isn't to the swift, it's to the thoughtful.

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  Thoughtful, Race

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• You may miss the end of the world, but you definitely are going to have a front row seat for the end of your world.

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  Missing, World, May

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• I have a skeptical and cranky side, and I'm forever puzzled why people believe the, seeming to me, dumb things that they choose to believe.

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  Believe, People, Forever

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• I think the cybernetic matrix is a tremendous tool for feminizing, and radicalizing, and psychedelicizing the social matrix. I see computers as entirely feminine.

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  Thinking, Tools, Computer

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