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Terence McKenna Quotes

Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage Picture Quote #1

The psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it Picture Quote #1

Buddhism is a heresy on Hinduism. It was Hinduism that did the dirty work for Buddhism, by the time Buddha came along priest-craft was an ancient tradition in India Picture Quote #1

The whole of the Amazonian narcotic complex, as it’s called in the old literature, is based on activation of DMT by one strategy or another Picture Quote #1

I have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what I call unhappiness. It isn’t for that Picture Quote #1

Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance Picture Quote #1

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Obviously, it’s some kind of freely commanded modality in the psyche with which we can have a relationship if we will but evolve a control language and a dialogue. And it remains mysterious Picture Quote #1

Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made Picture Quote #1

Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated Picture Quote #1

One way of assessing the toxicity of a drug is how do you feel the next day Picture Quote #1

DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen there is. If it gets stronger than that I don’t want to know about it Picture Quote #1

It’s a relationship like to a crusty Zen master, or something like that. And it is really like another entity because you cannot predict the answers Picture Quote #1

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To my mind this is what shamanic training must really be, is mnemonic training. If you want to bring the stuff back you have to train yourself to bring it back Picture Quote #1

One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life Picture Quote #1

There’s something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology Picture Quote #1

‘Drugs’ and psychedelics are not two members of a family, they are antithetically opposed to each other. The pro-psychedelic position is an anti-drug position Picture Quote #1

I can’t think of a society on Earth where people don’t take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with Picture Quote #1

What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime Picture Quote #1

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It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable Picture Quote #1

We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else Picture Quote #1

Inside the boundaries of the old paradigm there’s no hope, there’s no way out of the box of capitalism, monogamy, consumer fetishism, egoism, money worship, no way out. No way. No way out! Picture Quote #1

The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself Picture Quote #1

The possibility seems to be that what we call styles, or what we call motifs, are actually categories in the unconscious Picture Quote #1

What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination Picture Quote #1

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The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be dealt with Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World’s Soul into all of us Picture Quote #1

Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control Picture Quote #1

What WE represent is the nexus of concrescent novelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself, folding itself in upon itself for billions and billions of years. There is, so far as we know, nothing more advanced than what is sitting behind your eyes. The human neocortex is the most densely ramified complexified structure in the known universe Picture Quote #1

I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small Picture Quote #1

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Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage (Terence McKenna Quotes) The psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it (Terence McKenna Quotes) Buddhism is a heresy on Hinduism. It was Hinduism that did the dirty work for Buddhism, by the time Buddha came along priest-craft was an ancient tradition in India (Terence McKenna Quotes) The whole of the Amazonian narcotic complex, as it’s called in the old literature, is based on activation of DMT by one strategy or another (Terence McKenna Quotes) I have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what I call unhappiness. It isn’t for that (Terence McKenna Quotes) Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance (Terence McKenna Quotes) Obviously, it’s some kind of freely commanded modality in the psyche with which we can have a relationship if we will but evolve a control language and a dialogue. And it remains mysterious (Terence McKenna Quotes) Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made (Terence McKenna Quotes) Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated (Terence McKenna Quotes) One way of assessing the toxicity of a drug is how do you feel the next day (Terence McKenna Quotes) DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen there is. If it gets stronger than that I don’t want to know about it (Terence McKenna Quotes) It’s a relationship like to a crusty Zen master, or something like that. And it is really like another entity because you cannot predict the answers (Terence McKenna Quotes) To my mind this is what shamanic training must really be, is mnemonic training. If you want to bring the stuff back you have to train yourself to bring it back (Terence McKenna Quotes) One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life (Terence McKenna Quotes) There’s something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology (Terence McKenna Quotes) ‘Drugs’ and psychedelics are not two members of a family, they are antithetically opposed to each other. The pro-psychedelic position is an anti-drug position (Terence McKenna Quotes) I can’t think of a society on Earth where people don’t take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with (Terence McKenna Quotes) What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime (Terence McKenna Quotes) It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable (Terence McKenna Quotes) We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else (Terence McKenna Quotes) Inside the boundaries of the old paradigm there’s no hope, there’s no way out of the box of capitalism, monogamy, consumer fetishism, egoism, money worship, no way out. No way. No way out! (Terence McKenna Quotes) The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself (Terence McKenna Quotes) The possibility seems to be that what we call styles, or what we call motifs, are actually categories in the unconscious (Terence McKenna Quotes) What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination (Terence McKenna Quotes) The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be dealt with (Terence McKenna Quotes) 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 (Terence McKenna Quotes) It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World’s Soul into all of us (Terence McKenna Quotes) Chaos is what we’ve lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control (Terence McKenna Quotes) What WE represent is the nexus of concrescent novelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself, folding itself in upon itself for billions and billions of years. There is, so far as we know, nothing more advanced than what is sitting behind your eyes. The human neocortex is the most densely ramified complexified structure in the known universe (Terence McKenna Quotes) I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small (Terence McKenna Quotes)

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