Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 24

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• The psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it.

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  People, Path, Psychedelic

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• We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire into the cold hard world of modern science, existentialism and all the rest of it.

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  Fall, Empires, World

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• Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one which is confirmed by the psychedelic experience.

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  Ideas, Psychedelic, Standing Out

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• Look at the reputation they gave him. [Giordano] Bruno without the pyre is a whiskey priest laying waste to the maids of Umbria.

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  Umbria, Looks, Maids

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• Certainly neo-Platonism, Plotinus and Porphyry and that school are psychedelic philosophers. Their idea of an ascending hierarchy of more and more rarefied states is a sophisticated presentation of the shamanic cosmology, which is the cosmology that one experientially discovers when they involve themselves with psychedelics.

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  School, Ideas, Ascending

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• There is no dualism in the world of light. The conventions of relativity say that time slows down as one approaches the speed of light, but if one tries to imagine the point of view of a thing made of light, one must realize that what is never mentioned is that if one moves at the speed of light there is no time whatsoever... One exists in eternity, one has become eternal... One is then apart from the moving image; one exists in the completion of eternity.

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  Moving, Light, Views

  "New Maps of Hyperspace". Terence McKenna's speech at the Berkeley Institute for the Study of Consciousness (1984) as quoted in "Magical Blend Magazine", Issue #22, April 1989.

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• At the interface of the say-able and the unsay-able is the novel, the new, the never before seen, said or done. And that's what I think it's important to try and bring out, ideas. Because I think we are the animals that bring back ideas.

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  Animal, Thinking, Ideas

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• People are, in the confines of their own apartments, becoming Magellans of the interior world and reaching out to this alien thing and beginning to map it and bring back stories that can only be compared to the kind of stories that the chroniclers of the New World brought back to Spain at the close of the 15th century.

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  People, Spain, Stories

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• The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it.

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  Drug, Viewpoints, Becoming

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• We get to the point then with modern science where you could almost say that modern science is the art of describing those systems so crude in their structure that they are not subject to temporal variables.

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  Art, Variables, Modern

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• History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified.

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  Buddhist, Opposites, Rushing

  "Psychedelic Society". Terence McKenna's speech at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, February 1984.

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• The party impulse is a very subversive impulse. I mean, you know, a lot of artists have too much integrity to sell their art as a brand; but who has so much integrity that they would turn down a party?

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  Art, Integrity, Mean

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• National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.

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  Government, Paid

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• It's my belief that one of the unconscious reasons which underlies the odd attitude of the establishment toward hallucinogens is the fact that they bring the mystery to the surface as an individual experience. In other words, you do not understand the psychedelic experience by getting a report from Time magazine or even the Economist. You only understand the psychedelic experience by having it.

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  Attitude, Facts, Hallucinogens

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• Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.

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  Inspirational, Life, Reality

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• The sensory ratios that are being reinforced by the new electronic technology are like the sensory ratios that were in place fifteen thousand years ago. . . . Print imposes a condition on human mind which is now lifting.

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  Technology, Years, Mind

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• Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs.

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  Spiritual, Drug, Resorts

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• We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects...All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate tool.

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  Animal, Psychics, Growth

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

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• What good is a theory of how the universe works if it’s a series of tensor equations that, even when understood, come nowhere tangential to experience? The only intellectual or noetic or spiritual path worth following is one that builds on personal experience

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  Spiritual, Intellectual, Path

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

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• It's as though a certain level of intoxication with the mushroom is the precondition for being able to communicate, but is not itself enough.

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  Mushrooms, Levels, Able

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• History is the siren song of the soul.

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  Song, Soul, Sirens

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• The shaman is a very peculiar figure. He is critical to the functioning of the psychological and social life of his community, but in a way he is always peripheral to it. He lives at the edge of the village. He is only called upon in matters of great social crisis. He is feared and respected. And this might be a description of these hallucinogenic substances.

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  Community, Peculiar, Substance

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• The danger is [in using psychedelic drugs], just to put it out there, is madness.

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  Drug, Psychedelic, Madness

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• So I submit to you that what we represent is a Fifth Column, a Fifth Column that represents the best aspirations that human community is capable of, a Fifth Column that is willing to look at the structure of the psyche in contrast to the mess of society, and willing to dream.

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  Dream, Community, Looks

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• Let's not underrate cannabis, for cryin' out loud. Cannabis should be the glue of the community.

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  Community, Glue, Cannabis

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