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Terence Mckenna Inspirational Quotes (372)

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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.
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But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.
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It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable.
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The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products. This is terrifying news.
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Ayahuasca, unlike mushrooms and all these other things is only as good as the person who made it. . . . The ayahuasca is a combinatory drug, and so it brings the human interaction and the lore of it into a much more central position.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.
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Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding The strangeness seems to be accelerating.
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The Gaian mind is what were calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet - and without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies. But with that experience the compass of the self can be set.
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Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed
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And so, these are the things, the exploration of which, the singing about of which, makes us human beings. The exploration of the universe of the unseen is the business of human beings.
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Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory is the past recaptured and understood. In the fact of experiencing and making the present, we are all actors.
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The future holds no terrors for a person who knows how process inevitably unfolds. They are always right and with it each moment.
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It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.
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What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.
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Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order.
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For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.
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In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the reduction centuries of modern science. We've re-understood that the world is one thing, and it's a living thing. It's a thing with an intent and a spirit within it, and this is the key concept.
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Science is the exploration of the experience of nature without psychedelics. And I propose, therefore, to expand that enterprise and say that we need a science beyond science. We need a science which plays with a full deck.
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I believe that the place to search for extraterrestrials is in the psychic dimension.
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Reality itself is not static. This is one of the things that the psychedelic is trying to put across, that the reality we're embedded in is itself some kind of an organism and is evolving toward a conclusion.
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That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with.
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I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.
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Standing outside the cultural hysteria the trend is fairly clear. It is a trend toward temporal compression and the emergence of ambiguity.
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