Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 5

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• Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.

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  Our World, Names, Dmt

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• We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.

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  Years, Style, Heirs

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• Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.

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  Life, Magic, Paganism

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• Psychedelic experiences and dreams are chemical cousins; they are only different in degree.

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  Dream, Cousin, Degrees

  Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham (2001). “Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness”, p.15, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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• When your time is turned into money, the felt presence of immediate experience is analogous to being enslaved. I mean, let's be frank about it, it is enslavement.

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  Mean, Frank, Felt

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• Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up.

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  Dream, Commitment, Dmt

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• The surface of things is not where attention should rest.

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  Inspirational, Life, Attention

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• LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.

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  Personality, Different, Lsd

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• You will ride the Tao
  toward the concrescence
  and will be able to live in the light
  of its anticipation.

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  Light, Able, Tao

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• Nothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement. So it's very important to actually listen to your own intuition rather than driving through it.

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  Inspirational, Life, Missing

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• I see the psychedelic experience as both the centerpiece of prehistoric life and destined to be the centerpiece of any future that we want to be part of.

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  Want, Psychedelic, Centerpieces

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• The psychedelic universe, whatever it is, is the major datum of experience. It's larger than this planet. Nobody knows how large it is. The further in you go the bigger it gets. We don't know what to make of something like that. It's the reverse of our expectations.

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  Data, Expectations, Psychedelic

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• Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.

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  Dmt, Psychedelic, Evolution

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• If reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before.

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  Reality, Way, Code

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• Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art.

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  Art, Way, Facts

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• You know what, I'm stoned, and I'm proud.

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  Proud, Knows

  "True Hallucinations". Book by Terence McKenna, 1989.

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• The Internet is the global brain, the cyberspacially connected, telepathic, collective domain that we've all been hungering for.

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  Brain, Internet, Domain

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• I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.

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  Life Is Like, Life Is, Cannabis

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• The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice and the privacy of the individual mind.

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  Religious, Issues, Rights

  Terence McKenna (2010). “Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge”, p.255, Random House

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• The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human
  being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.

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  Facts, Psychedelic, Astronaut

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• Escape into the dream. Escape, a key thing charged against these drugs, that they are for escapists. I think the people who make this charge hardly dare dream to what degree they are escapist.

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  Dream, Thinking, Keys

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• Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature
  is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. Shamanism has always known this,
  and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the
  path required allies. These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the
  mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that
  nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until
  it is now nearly too late.

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  Teaching, Expression, Understanding

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• Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes.

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  Joy, Emotion, Sometimes

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• The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.

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  Night, Drawing, Long

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• We live in condensations of our imagination

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  Imagination, Condensation

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