Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 3

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• The only real experience that counts, is your own.

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  Real

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• The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.

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  Drug, Computer

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• You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.

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  Our World, Ideas, Dmt

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• As the bonfires of knowledge grow brighter, the more the darkness is revealed to our startled eyes.

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  Eye, Darkness, Bonfire

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• Science does not deal with subjective experience... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have.

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  Doe, Deals, Wells

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• We don't have to look far for miracles because they're all around us. Everything is astonishing. The universe on it's surface is alive with mystery.

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  Miracle, Looks, Alive

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• If we could feel what we are doing to the Earth, we would stop immediately.

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  Earth, Feels, Ifs

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• Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

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  Ego, Psychedelic, Absence

  "Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge A Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution". Book by Terence McKenna, February 1, 1992.

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• What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.

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  Civilization, People, Mind Blowing

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• There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.

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  Age, Illusion, Compare

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• If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.

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  Weed, Pursuit Of Happiness, Marijuana

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• DMT is a reliable method for crossing in to a dimension that human beings have debated the existence of for 50.000 years. Is there an invisible nearby world inhabited by active intelligences with which human beings can communicate? You bet. And if you don't think so, then tell me you don't think so after you've smoked 75mg DMT. Otherwise we just don't have anything to talk about.

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  Thinking, Years, Dmt

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• You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.

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  Mind Blowing, Secret, Blowing It

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• It is now very clear that techniques of machine-human interfacing, pharmacology of the synthetic variety, all kinds of manipulative techniques, all kinds of data storage, imaging and retrieval techniques - all of this is coalescing toward the potential of a truly demonic or angelic kind of self-imaging of our culture... And the people who are on the demonic side are fully aware of this and hurrying full-tilt forward with their plans to capture everyone as a 100% believing consumer inside some kind of a beige furnished fascism that won't even raise a ripple.

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  Believe, Self, Data

  "Non-Ordinary States of Reality Through Vision Plants". Book by Terence McKenna, 1988.

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• Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening

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  Thinking, Mind Blowing, Listening

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• The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.

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  Artist, Journey, Self

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• Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.

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  Dmt, Drug, Mind Blowing

  Terence McKenna (2010). “Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge”, p.220, Random House

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• I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there

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  Trying, Eyelids, Behinds

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• For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.

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  Self, Talking, Sea

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• Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas

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  Our World, Ideas, Dmt

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• The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.

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  Culture, Path, Language

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• Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants

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  Sacrifice, Ants, Bloody

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• Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.

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  Our World, World, Assumption

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• Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it's not necessarily some kind of 'Be Here Now' feel-good thing because it doesn't always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It's primary.

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  Memories, Real, Feel Good

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• Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness

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  Our World, Dmt, Mind Blowing

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