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Terence McKenna Quotes

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe Picture Quote #1

It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it Picture Quote #1

You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness Picture Quote #1

Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up Picture Quote #1

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We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together 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

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored Picture Quote #1

You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told Picture Quote #1

Nothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement. So it’s very important to actually listen to your own intuition rather than driving through it Picture Quote #1

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms Picture Quote #1

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The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination Picture Quote #1

Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you? Picture Quote #1

Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we’ve managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal Picture Quote #1

What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation 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

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

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We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort Picture Quote #1

We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception Picture Quote #1

If you charge off with some political agenda that is not informed by clarity, you are going to end up with business as usual. The road to hell is paved with good intentions but it is not paved with clarity Picture Quote #1

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

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

Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet Picture Quote #1

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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

Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton 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 problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us Picture Quote #1

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas Picture Quote #1

I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing Picture Quote #1

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The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams (Terence McKenna Quotes) 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 (Terence McKenna Quotes) Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe (Terence McKenna Quotes) It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it (Terence McKenna Quotes) You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness (Terence McKenna Quotes) Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up (Terence McKenna Quotes) We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together (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) Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored (Terence McKenna Quotes) You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told (Terence McKenna Quotes) Nothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement. So it’s very important to actually listen to your own intuition rather than driving through it (Terence McKenna Quotes) You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms (Terence McKenna Quotes) The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination (Terence McKenna Quotes) Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you? (Terence McKenna Quotes) Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we’ve managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal (Terence McKenna Quotes) What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation (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) 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) We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort (Terence McKenna Quotes) We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception (Terence McKenna Quotes) If you charge off with some political agenda that is not informed by clarity, you are going to end up with business as usual. The road to hell is paved with good intentions but it is not paved with clarity (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) That’s what a God is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you’re dealing with (Terence McKenna Quotes) Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet (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) Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton (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 problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us (Terence McKenna Quotes) The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas (Terence McKenna Quotes) I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing (Terence McKenna Quotes)

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