Terence McKenna Short Quotes

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Thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations.

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Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what's going on.

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The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.

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

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All information is everywhere. Information that is not here is nowhere.

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I connect the psychedelic dimension to the dimension of inspiration and dream.

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

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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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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

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By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.

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Somewhere around 1945 we began to loot the future as a strategy for survival, some ethical norm was shattered.

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Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.

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Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.

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For the Eschaton, positioned in eternity, all things are somehow coexistent in time or outside of time. All events have already happened.

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The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

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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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History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified.

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We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects...All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate tool.

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We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in all systems.

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We are alienated, so alienated that the self must disguise itself as an extraterrestrial in order not to alarm us with the truly bizarre dimensions that it encompasses.

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My voice speaking is a monkey's mouth making little mouth noises that are carrying agree-upon meaning, and it is meaning that matters. Without the meaning one has only little mouth noises

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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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You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.

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The shaman has access to a superhuman dimension and a superhuman condition, and by being able to do that he affirms the potential for transcendence in all people. He is an exemplar, if you will.

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Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.

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