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Terence McKenna Quotes

Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it’s there it doesn’t require your belief- and if it’s not there why should you believe in it? Picture Quote #1

Art’s task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns Picture Quote #1

The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products. This is terrifying news Picture Quote #1

I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a form of communication that is both psychedelic and telepathic; a model for the human communications of the future. In the not-too-distant future men and women may shed the monkey body to become virtual octopi swimming in a silicon sea Picture Quote #1

Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types today don’t understand that it’s not important to maintain control if you are not in control in the first place Picture Quote #1

The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech Picture Quote #1

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There is a belief that there is a hyperobject called Overmind, or God, that casts a shadow into time. History is our group experience if this shadow. As one draws closer and closer to the source of the shadow, the paradoxes intensify, the rate of change intensifies. What is happening is that the hyperobject is beginning to ingress into three-dimensional space Picture Quote #1

What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us Picture Quote #1

The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being Picture Quote #1

The smart people who are straight are involved in simply the media management of what has turned into a slow apocalypse, spreading starvation, exacerbated class differences, toxified agriculture, so forth and so on. I don’t believe the Establishment thinks there are solutions. Their policy is basically the management of panic, which is hardly a forward moving approach to the adventure of human civilization Picture Quote #1

The thing that seemed to me so important about the psychedelic experience was that it happened to me. I wasn’t reading John Chrysostom or Meister Eckhart. And so I assumed that I am a very ordinary person, therefore, if it happened to me it could happen to anyone Picture Quote #1

To me, the most amazing the most amazing transformation in my lifetime is not the revolution of the Sixties but the counter revolution of the Seventies, where they managed to put the cuckoo clock back together again Picture Quote #1

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The Gaian mind is what were calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet - and without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies. But with that experience the compass of the self can be set Picture Quote #1

There is no contradiction between technology and spirit. There is no contradiction between the search for intellectual integration and understanding and the psychedelic experience. There is no contradiction between ultra-advanced hyperspacial cyber culture and Paleolithic archaic culture. We have come to the end of our sojourn in matter. We have come to the end of our separateness Picture Quote #1

The same organizational principles which called us forth into self-reflection have called forth self-reflection out of the planet itself. And the problem then is for us to suspect this, act on our suspicion, and be good detectives, and track down the spirit in its lair. And this is what shamans are doing. They are hunters of spirit Picture Quote #1

We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons Picture Quote #1

For unknown reasons, there is a tremendous concentration of psychoactive plants on the South American continent. The South American continent has more known hallucinogens than the rest of the planet combined Picture Quote #1

The psychedelic experience is the beginning of the spiritual path. That’s why it’s not important that yogas’ claim that they can deliver you the psychedelic experience, because it begins with the psychedelic experience, and then you go from there Picture Quote #1

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It’s our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It’s not our political systems Picture Quote #1

This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call ‘civilization’ has been all about Picture Quote #1

No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it’s a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night Picture Quote #1

The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis Picture Quote #1

The psychedelic species of visual beauty is something we don’t see in our furniture styles and our architecture. It seems to be coming in, literally, from another dimension, and yet it is undeniably moving. It’s beautiful 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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We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma Picture Quote #1

Science does not deal with subjective experience... Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have Picture Quote #1

As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it’s hard for us to be at peace with ourselves Picture Quote #1

Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it’s not necessarily some kind of ‘Be Here Now’ feel-good thing because it doesn’t always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It’s primary Picture Quote #1

Ayahuasca loves to take prideful people and rub their nose in it. I mean it can make you beg for mercy like nothing. You have to really approach it humbly 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

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Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it’s there it doesn’t require your belief- and if it’s not there why should you believe in it? (Terence McKenna Quotes) Art’s task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns (Terence McKenna Quotes) The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products. This is terrifying news (Terence McKenna Quotes) I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a form of communication that is both psychedelic and telepathic; a model for the human communications of the future. In the not-too-distant future men and women may shed the monkey body to become virtual octopi swimming in a silicon sea (Terence McKenna Quotes) Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types today don’t understand that it’s not important to maintain control if you are not in control in the first place (Terence McKenna Quotes) The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech (Terence McKenna Quotes) There is a belief that there is a hyperobject called Overmind, or God, that casts a shadow into time. History is our group experience if this shadow. As one draws closer and closer to the source of the shadow, the paradoxes intensify, the rate of change intensifies. What is happening is that the hyperobject is beginning to ingress into three-dimensional space (Terence McKenna Quotes) What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us (Terence McKenna Quotes) The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being (Terence McKenna Quotes) The smart people who are straight are involved in simply the media management of what has turned into a slow apocalypse, spreading starvation, exacerbated class differences, toxified agriculture, so forth and so on. I don’t believe the Establishment thinks there are solutions. Their policy is basically the management of panic, which is hardly a forward moving approach to the adventure of human civilization (Terence McKenna Quotes) The thing that seemed to me so important about the psychedelic experience was that it happened to me. I wasn’t reading John Chrysostom or Meister Eckhart. And so I assumed that I am a very ordinary person, therefore, if it happened to me it could happen to anyone (Terence McKenna Quotes) To me, the most amazing the most amazing transformation in my lifetime is not the revolution of the Sixties but the counter revolution of the Seventies, where they managed to put the cuckoo clock back together again (Terence McKenna Quotes) The Gaian mind is what were calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet - and without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies. But with that experience the compass of the self can be set (Terence McKenna Quotes) There is no contradiction between technology and spirit. There is no contradiction between the search for intellectual integration and understanding and the psychedelic experience. There is no contradiction between ultra-advanced hyperspacial cyber culture and Paleolithic archaic culture. We have come to the end of our sojourn in matter. We have come to the end of our separateness (Terence McKenna Quotes) The same organizational principles which called us forth into self-reflection have called forth self-reflection out of the planet itself. And the problem then is for us to suspect this, act on our suspicion, and be good detectives, and track down the spirit in its lair. And this is what shamans are doing. They are hunters of spirit (Terence McKenna Quotes) We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons (Terence McKenna Quotes) For unknown reasons, there is a tremendous concentration of psychoactive plants on the South American continent. The South American continent has more known hallucinogens than the rest of the planet combined (Terence McKenna Quotes) The psychedelic experience is the beginning of the spiritual path. That’s why it’s not important that yogas’ claim that they can deliver you the psychedelic experience, because it begins with the psychedelic experience, and then you go from there (Terence McKenna Quotes) It’s our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It’s not our political systems (Terence McKenna Quotes) This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call ‘civilization’ has been all about. (Terence McKenna Quotes) No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it’s a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night. (Terence McKenna Quotes) The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis. (Terence McKenna Quotes) The psychedelic species of visual beauty is something we don’t see in our furniture styles and our architecture. It seems to be coming in, literally, from another dimension, and yet it is undeniably moving. It’s beautiful. (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) We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma. (Terence McKenna Quotes) Science does not deal with subjective experience... Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have. (Terence McKenna Quotes) As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it’s hard for us to be at peace with ourselves. (Terence McKenna Quotes) Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it’s not necessarily some kind of ‘Be Here Now’ feel-good thing because it doesn’t always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It’s primary. (Terence McKenna Quotes) Ayahuasca loves to take prideful people and rub their nose in it. I mean it can make you beg for mercy like nothing. You have to really approach it humbly. (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)

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