Terence McKenna Quotes - Page 9

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• Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high or different awareness. They are the exact opposite of drugs. They promote questioning , they promote consciousness, they promote value examinations, they promote the reconstruction of behavioral patterns.

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  Opposites, Addiction, Drug

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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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• The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.

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  Self, Drug, Toxic

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• The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information

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  Imagination, Information, 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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• 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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• Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture.
  Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.

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  Responsibility, Thinking, Culture

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• It seems to me that information is the thing which uses matter, uses light, uses spirit, uses whatever it can put its hands on to organize itself into higher and higher levels of self-reflection.

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  Reflection, Self, Hands

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• This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say that the universe, nature, is a novelty-conserving, or complexity-conserving engine.

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  Law, Novelty, Complexity

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• We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.

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  Flames, Mind Blowing, Looks

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• I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature as the central metaphor that we want to work out from. Because I think literature occupies the same relationship to life that life occupies to death. A book is life with one dimension pulled out of it. And life is something that lacks a dimension which death will give it. I imagine death to be a kind of release into the imagination in the sense that for characters in a book, what we experience is an unimaginable dimension of freedom.

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  Book, Character, Thinking

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• It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy.

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  War, Engineering, Years

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• I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them.

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  Jobs, Real, Believe

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• What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.

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  Gentleman, Tables, Eras

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• The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.

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  Luxury, Mind Blowing, Blowing It

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• Language betrays,
  in order to mean.

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  Mean, Order, Language

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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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• It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.

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  Ocean, Easy

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

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• Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean.

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  Mean, Psychedelic, Telepathy

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• We are creatures of information and the imagination. The monkey we are already beginning to transform and shed. We don't look like the other monkeys, and we look less like them all the time.

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  Imagination, Looks, Monkeys

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• What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in the mathematical sense.

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  Reality, Thinking, Perspective

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• There's only the integrity of doing and having done.

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  Integrity, Done

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• Nobody should be allowed more than fifty years to get their act together.

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  Years, Together, Fifty

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• ...the mind is more powerful than any imaginable particle accelerator, more sensitive than any radio receiver or the largest optical telescope, more complete in its grasp of information than any computer: the human body- its organs, its voice, its powers of locomotion, and its imagination- is a more-than-sufficient means for the exploration of any place, time or energy level in the universe.

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  Powerful, Mean, Voice

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• What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine.

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  Done, Return, Psychedelic

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