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Terence Mckenna Inspirational Quotes (372)

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This is the key. If you get into deep water with these substances, this is true of psilocybin as well, you don't want to clench, you don't want to assume the fetal position and stop breathing. You want to sit up straight and breathe, and sing, and sing it back, and it will step back. You can take control of your situation ... most of the time.
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The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of the planet with safety.
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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.
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Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.
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To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.
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There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules
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That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.
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Only responsible human beings can exist in an anarchistic society.
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I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky.
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I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.
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LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same since, nor will we ever be, for LSD demonstrated, even to skeptics, that the mansions of heaven and gardens of paradise lie within each and all of us.
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Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness. . . . Would that we could send robots who could film these psychedelic realities. . . . The presence of so much beauty is an argument to me that truth cannot be far away.
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A singularity is a place where the rules are broken. A miracle is a singularity.
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Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.
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We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place.
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The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.
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The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.
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If you actually look at the etymology of the word 'hallucination', what it's come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That's the meaning of 'hallucination', to wander in the mind.
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The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.
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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.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer
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There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental.
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