Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 6

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• This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we are in the grip of an attractor of some sort, which lies ahead of us in time.

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  Lying, Believe, Historical

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• This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level.

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  Self, Levels, Ascent

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• Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

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  Future, Gun, Civilization

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• There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules

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  Spiritual, Simple, Tasks

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

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• The engineers of the future will be poets.

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  Inspirational, Inspiring, Poet

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• We cannot evolve faster than our language. The edge of being is the edge of meaning, and somehow we have to push the edge of meaning. We have to extend it.

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  Language, Faster, Evolve

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• Psychedelics are not flashlights into the chaos of the Freudian unconscious, they are tools for mathematically unpacking your mind into a higher dimensional space. In the Newtonian and print created space that we are walking around in you, are like a self extracting archive, that hasn't self extracted itself yet.

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  Self, Space, Mind

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• Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.

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  Life, Lying, Self

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• The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products. This is terrifying news.

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  Spiritual, Emotional, Mind Blowing

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• I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.

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  People, Mind, Psychedelic

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• How do we fight back? By creating art.

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  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.

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  Self, Two, Mystery

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• You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.

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  Two, Interesting, Ego

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• Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy.

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  Games, Miracle, Energy

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• All time is is how much change you can pack into a second.

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  All Time, Packs

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• And what we're looking toward is a moment when the artificial language structures which bind us within the notion of ourselves are dissolved in the presence of the realization that we are a part of nature. And when that happens, the childhood of our species will pass away, and we will stand tremulously on the brink of really the first moment of coherent human civilization.

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  Civilization, Childhood, Passing Away

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• Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.

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  Needs, Facts, Theory

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• Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.

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  Steps, Bondage, Greater

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• What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should be put aside.... This is I think much of the problem of the modern dilemma: Direct experience has been discounted, and in its place all kinds of belief systems have been erected.... If you believe something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite; which means that a degree of your human freedom has been forfeited in the act of committing yourself to this belief.

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  Faith, Believe, Mean

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• The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.

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  Rumor, Knows, Felt

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• The mind is a far bigger domain than we ever imagined.

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  Mind, Bigger, Domain

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• Every click of the cosmic clock
  brings us closer to the process
  for which the planet called us into existence.

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  Clock, Process, Clicks

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• To my mind this makes psychedelics central to any political reconstruction, because these are the only force in nature that actually dissolve linguistics structures; lets the mechanics of syntax to be visible, allows the possibility for rapid introduction and spread of new concepts; gives permission for new ways of seeing; and this is what we have to do, we have to change our minds.

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  Giving, Political, Mind

  "History Ends in Green". Terence McKenna's eight-hour lecture at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, www.youtube.com. 1989.

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• In shamanism and certain yogas, Taoist yoga, claim very clearly that the purpose is to familiarize yourself with this after-death body, in life, and then the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche. You will recognize what is happening. You will know what to do. And you will make the clean break.

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  Yoga, Confusion, Dying

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• Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.

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  Struggle, Eden, Stories

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