Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 7

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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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• And the whole schtick of the psychedelic experience, I think, is reclaim immediate experience, realize that you out vote all parliaments, police forces, and major newspapers on the planet because, who knows, they may be illusions.

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  Thinking, Police, May

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• Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.

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  Kind, Building, Excellent

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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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• Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.

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  Technology, Interaction, Humans

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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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• Memory training is great psychedelic training.

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  Memories, Training, Psychedelic

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• If I can paraphrase Teilhard de Chardin for a moment, he said, or I will paraphrase in this way, 'When the human race understands the potential of the hallucinogenic drug experience, it will have discovered fire for the second time.'

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  Fire, Race, Drug

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• Science is the exploration of the experience of nature without psychedelics. And I propose, therefore, to expand that enterprise and say that we need a science beyond science. We need a science which plays with a full deck.

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  Play, Needs, Exploration

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• In cyberspace things are built out of light.

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  Light, Cyberspace, Built

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• I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.

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  Thinking, Ideas, World

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• Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort, and ignore. That is that nature is some kind of minded entity. That nature is not simply the random flight of atoms through electromagnetic fields. Nature is not the empty, despiritualized , lumpen matter that we inherit from modern physics. But it is instead a kind of intelligence, a kind of mind.

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  Discovery, Mind, Atoms

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• I believe that the place to search for extraterrestrials is in the psychic dimension.

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  Believe, Psychics, Dimensions

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• I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions.

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  Thinking, Understanding, Institutions

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• I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.

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  Life, Thinking, Toxic

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• Marcel Eliade took the position that hallucinogenic shamanism was decadent, and Gordon Wasson, very rightly I believe, contravened this view and held that actually it was very probably the presence of the hallucinogenic drug experience in the life of early man that lay the very basis for the idea of the spirit.

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  Believe, Men, Views

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• What is needed is a spirit of boundary dissolution, between individuals, between classes, sexual orientations, rich and poor, man and woman, intellectual and feeling toned types. If this can happen, then we will make a new world. And if this doesn't happen, nature is fairly pitiless and has a place for us in the shale of this planet, where so many have preceded us.

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  Men, Class, Feelings

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• So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.

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  Mean, Thinking, Unanswered Questions

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• These religions that are so freighted with their own pomposity are no better than inspired guesses.

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  Inspired, Pomposity

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• Our medium is meat, but we are made of information.

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  Meat, Information, Made

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• Skywalker is a direct translation of the word shaman out of the Tungusic, which is where Siberian shamanism comes from. So these heroes that are being instilled in the heart of the culture are shamanic heroes. They control a force which is bigger than everybody and holds the galaxy together.

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  Hero, Heart, Together

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

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• If you actually look at the etymology of the word 'hallucination', what it's come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That's the meaning of 'hallucination', to wander in the mind.

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  Mean, Mind, Looks

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• We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.

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  Years, Strive, Unspeakable

  "The Transcendental Object at the End of Time/ Taglines". www.imdb.com. 2014.

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• What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.

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  Mushrooms, Dmt, Might

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• The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.

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  Giving Up, People, Drug

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