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Terence McKenna Quotes

Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy Picture Quote #1

There are times when everything seems to go right, and times when everything seems to go wrong Picture Quote #1

Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it Picture Quote #1

I see the psychedelic experience as both the centerpiece of prehistoric life and destined to be the centerpiece of any future that we want to be part of Picture Quote #1

When your time is turned into money, the felt presence of immediate experience is analogous to being enslaved. I mean, let’s be frank about it, it is enslavement Picture Quote #1

Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work Picture Quote #1

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Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together Picture Quote #1

Flying saucers are nothing more than miracles, and they occur essentially to bedevil science Picture Quote #1

I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking Picture Quote #1

The thing is that it is incredibly frustrating to anyone who would control it, because you can’t predict the impact of any technology before you put it in place Picture Quote #1

Nobody should be allowed more than fifty years to get their act together Picture Quote #1

The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity Picture Quote #1

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The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control Picture Quote #1

That’s what a God is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you’re dealing with Picture Quote #1

When we really understand time travel we may find out it’s as common as dirt and has been going on all around us is all kinds of physical processes Picture Quote #1

We have outlived this embryo, this human cradle, and now it’s time to be up and about the great business of becoming citizens of the galaxy and at home with our own heart Picture Quote #1

The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet Picture Quote #1

A great turning point is in the offing. The world is changing. It’s changed before, but not for a long time in our lives, not since before our lives. But now it’s changing, and there are many many possibilities Picture Quote #1

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If I can paraphrase Teilhard de Chardin for a moment, he said, or I will paraphrase in this way, ‘When the human race understands the potential of the hallucinogenic drug experience, it will have discovered fire for the second time.’ Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools Picture Quote #1

The data stream has been corrupted, return to first principles Picture Quote #1

I connect the psychedelic dimension to the dimension of inspiration and dream Picture Quote #1

Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency Picture Quote #1

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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion Picture Quote #1

Why does mathematics describe nature. That’s a deeper question than most Picture Quote #1

The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model Picture Quote #1

To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything Picture Quote #1

Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything Picture Quote #1

To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality Picture Quote #1

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Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy. (Terence McKenna Quotes) There are times when everything seems to go right, and times when everything seems to go wrong (Terence McKenna Quotes) Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it. (Terence McKenna Quotes) I see the psychedelic experience as both the centerpiece of prehistoric life and destined to be the centerpiece of any future that we want to be part of. (Terence McKenna Quotes) When your time is turned into money, the felt presence of immediate experience is analogous to being enslaved. I mean, let’s be frank about it, it is enslavement. (Terence McKenna Quotes) Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work. (Terence McKenna Quotes) Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together. (Terence McKenna Quotes) Flying saucers are nothing more than miracles, and they occur essentially to bedevil science (Terence McKenna Quotes) I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking. (Terence McKenna Quotes) The thing is that it is incredibly frustrating to anyone who would control it, because you can’t predict the impact of any technology before you put it in place. (Terence McKenna Quotes) Nobody should be allowed more than fifty years to get their act together (Terence McKenna Quotes) The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity. (Terence McKenna Quotes) The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control. (Terence McKenna Quotes) That’s what a God is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you’re dealing with. (Terence McKenna Quotes) When we really understand time travel we may find out it’s as common as dirt and has been going on all around us is all kinds of physical processes. (Terence McKenna Quotes) We have outlived this embryo, this human cradle, and now it’s time to be up and about the great business of becoming citizens of the galaxy and at home with our own heart. (Terence McKenna Quotes) The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet. (Terence McKenna Quotes) A great turning point is in the offing. The world is changing. It’s changed before, but not for a long time in our lives, not since before our lives. But now it’s changing, and there are many many possibilities. (Terence McKenna Quotes) If I can paraphrase Teilhard de Chardin for a moment, he said, or I will paraphrase in this way, ‘When the human race understands the potential of the hallucinogenic drug experience, it will have discovered fire for the second time.’ (Terence McKenna Quotes) 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. (Terence McKenna Quotes) And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools. (Terence McKenna Quotes) The data stream has been corrupted, return to first principles (Terence McKenna Quotes) I connect the psychedelic dimension to the dimension of inspiration and dream (Terence McKenna Quotes) Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency (Terence McKenna Quotes) The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion (Terence McKenna Quotes) Why does mathematics describe nature. That’s a deeper question than most (Terence McKenna Quotes) The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model (Terence McKenna Quotes) To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything (Terence McKenna Quotes) Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything (Terence McKenna Quotes) To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality (Terence McKenna Quotes)

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