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Terence Mckenna Inspirational Quotes (372)

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The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.
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You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.
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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.
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Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.
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Biology seems to be a chemical strategy for amplifying quantum mechanical indeterminacy so that it leaves the subatomic realm and can be present in a hundred and forty five pound block of meat.
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We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.
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Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.
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When we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward toward the futile promise of life that circles distant stars in order to still our cosmic loneliness. We should look within the paths of the heart lead to nearby universes full of life and affection for humanity.
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The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.
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The Earth itself is stepping in to aid in the agenda of cultural transformation. There are too many doorways in nature that lead to heaven, there are too many paths to the mystery for any institution or social policy to be able to thwart the intent of the human species to evolve.
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Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean.
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I'm not an abuser. It takes me a long time to assimilate each experience. And I never have lost my respect for it. I mean I really feel dread. It is one of the emotions I always feel as I approach it, because I have no faith that my sails won't be ripped this time.
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The quality of rhetoric emanating from the psychedelic community must improve radically. If it does not, we will forfeit the reclamation of our birthright and all opportunity for exploring the psychedelic dimension will be closed off.
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Cyberspace is the human transition into a mathematical super space where we as a collectivity become optionally a single point of view.
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And science, when it examines psychedelics, as it will and must, is going to discover a revolution, I believe, that will put all the previous revolutions in perspective.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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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.
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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.
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What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings, which has always been a great puzzle to evolutionary theory, I believe, occurred in the presence of a kind of catalyst for the human imagination.
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Actually, the highest form of human organization is not realized in the democratic individual. It is realized in a dimension none of us have ever penetrated, which is the mind of the species, which is actually the hand at the tiller of history. . . . It is an organized entelechy of some sort, and human history is its signature on the primates.
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We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.
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Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work.
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