Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 23

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• Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work.

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  Path, Psychedelic, Revelations

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• History is anomalous, and there is no way to get used to it.

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  Way, Used

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• I would argue that it's almost better to do heroin than to watch TV. At least when you're doing heroin you're responsible for your own reveries and thought processes. When you're mainlining TV what is it but endless messages to fetishize products?

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  Messages, Tvs, Watches

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• Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?

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  Style, Chance, Succession

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• Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.

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  Psychedelic, Shamanism, Terror

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• Human history is a Gaian dream.

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  Dream, Historical, Gaia

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• The war on drugs was never meant to be won. Instead, it will be prolonged as long as possible in order to allow various intelligence operations to wring the last few hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit profits from the global drug scam; then defeat will have to be declared. "Defeat" will mean, as it did in the case of the Vietnam War, that the media will correctly portray the true dimensions of the situation and the real players, and that public revulsion at the culpability, stupidity and venality of the Establishment's role will force a policy review.

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  Real, War, Mean

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• Because I believe psychedelics are a kind of higher dimensional sectioning of reality, I think they give the kind of stereoscopic vision necessary to hold the entire hologram of what's happening in your mind. The old paradigm is gone.

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  Believe, Thinking, Reality

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• Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.

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  Literature, Grids, Form

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• I mean everybody knows there's something wrong with the world and if you read left wing politicians or deconstructionists or thoughtful historians they will offer thoughtful critiques of our situation. But the question is, you know, the Tolstoyian question; 'What is to be done?'

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  Mean, Thoughtful, Wings

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• What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.

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  Psychedelic, States, Description

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• Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.

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  Drug, Mind, Television

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• It doesn't matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people that's frightening.

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  Fall, People, Matter

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• My hope is that I may bear witness to the fact that there is a great mystery calling to us all, beckoning across the landscape of our history, promising to realize itself and to give real meaning to what is otherwise only the confusion of our lives and our collective past.

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  Real, Past, Giving

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• Technique to me is a kind of a ... I'm reluctant to talk about it because it seems so obvious to me what good technique is. I mean, you sit down, you shut up, and you pay attention is basically the good technique. And then the footnotes add; on an empty stomach, in a dark room, feeling comfortable.

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  Mean, Dark, Feelings

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• And certainly when I reached La Chorerra in 1971 I had a price on my head by the FBI, I was running out of money, I was at the end of my rope. And then “THEY” recruited me and said, “you know, with a mouth like yours there's a place for you in our organization“. And I've worked in deep background positions about which the less said the better. And then about 15 years ago they shifted me into public relations and I've been there to the present.

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  Running, Organization, Years

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• The thing that is so powerful about the psychedelics is that they perform on demand, which almost in principle you cannot expect of a mystical experience because that would be essentially man ordering God at man's whim, which is not how it's supposed to work.

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  Powerful, Men, Mystical Experiences

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• No more do we create cultural artifacts that are simply our furniture, but now it's our thoughts, our values, are embodied in this [digital] stuff.

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  Stuff, Digital, Furniture

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• There is not the Newtonian universe deployed throughout the parsecs and kiliocosms of physical space and the interior mental universe. They are the same thing.

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  Space, Interiors, Universe

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• It's as important to be well informed in this area, if you're going to do it, as it is to be well informed about procedures in skin diving and that sort of thing if you're going to do that.

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  Important, Skins, Diving

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• There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.

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  Mind, Trying, Ontology

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• The central figure in the archaic revival is the shaman.

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  Revival, Figures

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• To my mind this is what shamanic training must really be, is mnemonic training. If you want to bring the stuff back you have to train yourself to bring it back.

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  Training, Mind, Want

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• Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That's where culture gets real ugly. It is when you rub up against its ideologies.

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  Real, Culture, Ugly

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• It's the impossible become possible and yet remaining impossible.

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  Impossible Becomes Possible, Impossible

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