Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 4

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• Cultures are virtual realities made of language.

  Terence McKenna

  Reality, Culture, Language

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• And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.

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  Data, Felt, Primaries

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• DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic.

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  Dmt, Magic, Add

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• You aren't an object. You're a process of some sort.

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  Process, Objects

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• There’s light at the end of the tunnel. The problem is that tunnel is in the back of your mind. And if you don’t go to the back side of your mind you will never see the light at the end of the tunnel. And once you see it, then the task becomes to empower it in yourself and other people. Spread it as a reality. God did not retire to the seventh heaven, God is some kind of lost continent IN the human mind.

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  Reality, Tunnels, Light

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• What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless singing.

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  Thinking, Long, Singing

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• One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.

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  Buddhist, Keys, Attention

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• I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky.

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  Thinking, People, Tacky

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• You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.

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  Art, Two, Mind

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• So you know what we have to do is stop looking for leadership from the top, because the least among us make their way into those positions of power... So what we have to do is knock off this fantasy of being citizens inside a democratic state, I mean, what we are, are the propagandized masses inside a fascist dictatorship.

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  Mean, Position Of Power, Citizens

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• The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.

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  Reality, World, Fields

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• It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other.

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  Intelligent, Causes, Language

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• Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language.

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  World, Matter, Language

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• Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what's going on.

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  Kind, Obligation

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

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• My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.

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  Believe, Opposites, Mind Blowing

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• We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.

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  Children, Culture, World

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• Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.

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  Destiny, Thinking, Body

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

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• We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.

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  Perfect, Becoming, Microcosm

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

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• The shaman is a person who is able to transcend the dimensional confines of cultural existence. They know more than the people they serve. The people they serve are like children within the game of culture. Only the shaman knows that culture is a game. Everyone else takes it seriously. That's how he can do his magic.

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  Children, Games, People

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• Don't worry. You don't know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin' out loud. It's a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.

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  Thinking, Worry, Waste

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• You're immortal as long as you live.

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  Long, Immortal

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• What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.

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  Ignorance, Historical, Progress

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

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• But technology is the real skin of our species. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last five hundred years, is an extruder of technological material. We take in matter that has a low degree of organization; we put it through mental filters, and we extrude jewelry, gospels, space shuttles. This is what we do. 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. That tool is the flying saucer, or the soul, exteriorized in three-dimensional space.

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  Real, Technology, Animal

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

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• Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.

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  Enlightenment, Culture, Barriers

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• You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your purpose? To add to the complexity. Your enemy? Disorder, entropy, stupidity, and tastelessness.

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  Cutting, Years, Stupidity

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