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Terence McKenna Quotes

It’s as though a certain level of intoxication with the mushroom is the precondition for being able to communicate, but is not itself enough Picture Quote #1

This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level Picture Quote #1

There is a morphological enfoldment occurring on this planet. It is bringing forth some entirely new order of being. We are a privileged part of this Picture Quote #1

Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience Picture Quote #1

My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite Picture Quote #1

Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans Picture Quote #1

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Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let’s try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited! Picture Quote #1

You put two egos together and you’ve either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair Picture Quote #1

The ‘hard swallow’ built into science is this business about the Big Bang. ... This is the notion that the universe, for no reason, sprang from nothing in a single instant. ... Notice that this is the limit test for credulity. . . . It’s the limit case for likelihood Picture Quote #1

We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture Picture Quote #1

Death is the black hole of biology. It’s an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole Picture Quote #1

What I always hoped for out of the psychedelic voyaging was to bring back something. I always felt, and still feel, that that is the attitude with which you should go into these things Picture Quote #1

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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain levelÃ¯Â»Â¿ of alienation Picture Quote #1

What we need to change is our minds, that’s the part that’s doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds Picture Quote #1

Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs 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 is a sort of fair play, and if you can get in touch with that in your life, if you can have that perception, the world will begin to work for you, it will begin to move toward you... Nature loves courage, and it shows you that loves courage because it will remove obstacles Picture Quote #1

In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed [through use of psychedelics] as simply quaint cultural artifacts, painted masks and rattles assembled by people of good intent but clearly not great grasp of the situation Picture Quote #1

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It doesn’t matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people that’s frightening Picture Quote #1

What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all Picture Quote #1

The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path Picture Quote #1

Culture is more and more consciously becoming a project carried out in the domain of language by, for instance, propaganda both governmental and commercial Picture Quote #1

I’m proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language develops, and therefore regulate human culture generally Picture Quote #1

Escape into the dream. Escape, a key thing charged against these drugs, that they are for escapists. I think the people who make this charge hardly dare dream to what degree they are escapist Picture Quote #1

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$It’s a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth Picture Quote #1$

In 1948, television was introduced, and millions and millions of people lead larval, low-awareness, warehoused lives mainlining an electronic drug straight into their brains Picture Quote #1

The future holds no terrors for a person who knows how process inevitably unfolds. They are always right and with it each moment Picture Quote #1

The sensory ratios that are being reinforced by the new electronic technology are like the sensory ratios that were in place fifteen thousand years ago. . . . Print imposes a condition on human mind which is now lifting Picture Quote #1

The traditional manner of taking psilocybin is to take a very healthy dose, in the vicinity of 15 mg. on an empty stomach in total darkness Picture Quote #1

I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time Picture Quote #1

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It’s as though a certain level of intoxication with the mushroom is the precondition for being able to communicate, but is not itself enough. (Terence McKenna Quotes) This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level (Terence McKenna Quotes) There is a morphological enfoldment occurring on this planet. It is bringing forth some entirely new order of being. We are a privileged part of this. (Terence McKenna Quotes) Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience. (Terence McKenna Quotes) My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite. (Terence McKenna Quotes) Chaos is roving through the system and able to undo, at any point, the best laid plans (Terence McKenna Quotes) Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let’s try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited! (Terence McKenna Quotes) You put two egos together and you’ve either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair. (Terence McKenna Quotes) The ‘hard swallow’ built into science is this business about the Big Bang. ... This is the notion that the universe, for no reason, sprang from nothing in a single instant. ... Notice that this is the limit test for credulity. . . . It’s the limit case for likelihood. (Terence McKenna Quotes) We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture. (Terence McKenna Quotes) Death is the black hole of biology. It’s an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole. (Terence McKenna Quotes) What I always hoped for out of the psychedelic voyaging was to bring back something. I always felt, and still feel, that that is the attitude with which you should go into these things. (Terence McKenna Quotes) The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain levelÃ¯Â»Â¿ of alienation (Terence McKenna Quotes) What we need to change is our minds, that’s the part that’s doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds. (Terence McKenna Quotes) Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs. (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 is a sort of fair play, and if you can get in touch with that in your life, if you can have that perception, the world will begin to work for you, it will begin to move toward you... Nature loves courage, and it shows you that loves courage because it will remove obstacles. (Terence McKenna Quotes) In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed [through use of psychedelics] as simply quaint cultural artifacts, painted masks and rattles assembled by people of good intent but clearly not great grasp of the situation. (Terence McKenna Quotes) It doesn’t matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people that’s frightening. (Terence McKenna Quotes) What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all. (Terence McKenna Quotes) The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path. (Terence McKenna Quotes) Culture is more and more consciously becoming a project carried out in the domain of language by, for instance, propaganda both governmental and commercial. (Terence McKenna Quotes) I’m proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language develops, and therefore regulate human culture generally. (Terence McKenna Quotes) Escape into the dream. Escape, a key thing charged against these drugs, that they are for escapists. I think the people who make this charge hardly dare dream to what degree they are escapist. (Terence McKenna Quotes) It’s a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth. (Terence McKenna Quotes) In 1948, television was introduced, and millions and millions of people lead larval, low-awareness, warehoused lives mainlining an electronic drug straight into their brains. (Terence McKenna Quotes) The future holds no terrors for a person who knows how process inevitably unfolds. They are always right and with it each moment. (Terence McKenna Quotes) The sensory ratios that are being reinforced by the new electronic technology are like the sensory ratios that were in place fifteen thousand years ago. . . . Print imposes a condition on human mind which is now lifting. (Terence McKenna Quotes) The traditional manner of taking psilocybin is to take a very healthy dose, in the vicinity of 15 mg. on an empty stomach in total darkness. (Terence McKenna Quotes) I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time. (Terence McKenna Quotes)

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