Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 7

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• When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.

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  Art, Void, Dimensions

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• Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

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  Smart, Understanding, What If

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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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• A singularity is a place where the rules are broken. A miracle is a singularity.

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  Broken, Miracle, Singularity

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• Not to know one's true identity is to be a mad, disensouled thing — a golem. And, indeed, this image, sick-eningly Orwellian, applies to the mass of human beings now living in the high-tech industrial democracies. Their authenticity lies in their ability to obey and follow mass style changes that are conveyed through the media. Immersed in junk food, trash media, and cryp-tofascist politics, they are condemned to toxic lives of low awareness. Sedated by the prescripted daily television fix, they are a living dead, lost to all but the act of consuming.

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  Lying, True Identity, Media

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• The things I encounter that I call elves or gnomes, it's just a gloss. I mean, they're small, and they have the archetype. They're more like leprechauns, and this maybe raises a racial issue.

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  Mean, Issues, Encounters

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• Psychedelic drugs, especially psilocybin, allow a searchlight to be thrown on these deeper levels of the psyche, as Jung correctly stated. But it is not a museum of archetypes or psychic constructs, as he seemed to assume. It is a frontier of wholeness into which any person, so motivated and so courageous as to wish to do it, can go and leave the mundane plane far behind.

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  Psychics, Museums, Drug

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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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• 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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• 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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• Psilocybin, tryptamine, is in my opinion the means to eliminating the future by becoming cognizant of the architecture of eternity, which is modulating time and causing history, essentially.

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  Mean, Becoming, Psilocybin

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• There is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.

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  Struggle, Angel, Historical

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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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• [DMT] raises all the questions in a hurry. It's so intense and so oriented toward the other and the visual and the hallucinogenic that it isn't really like a drug. It's more like an event that you ran into. You just came around a corner and there was the unspeakable.

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  Dmt, Drug, Events

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• This is a general comment that you should take a committed dose of whatever it is you're taking so that there is no ambiguity, because there's nothing worse than a sub-threshold psychedelic experience.

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  Psychedelic, Should, Threshold

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• [This legendary Amazonian substance is] a cybernetic transdimentional medium of some sort that is generated out of the mysteries of the physiology of the human body.

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  Substance, Body, Mystery

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• Hallucinogenic plants act as enzymes which stimulate imagination.

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  Imagination, Enzymes, Plant

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• There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental.

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  Eye, Dimensions, Transcendental

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• I think the world is growing more psychedelic every day. I'm completely hopeful. . . . This is how it should be. This is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for hyperspace.

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  Thinking, Hopeful, World

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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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• I think that the whole thing, the crux of the whole psychedelic issue, is that it accentuates personal responsibility by making people take their own experiences seriously.

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  Responsibility, Thinking, Issues

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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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• We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.

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  Needs, Social Behavior, Dilemma

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• Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.

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  People, Fiction, Form

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• Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This is the way engineers get high. They go to the moon!

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  Moon, Getting High, Voyages

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