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Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language.
Terence McKenna
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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
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Terence Kemp McKenna
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Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?
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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.
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The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.
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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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In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed [through use of psychedelics] as simply quaint cultural artifacts, painted masks and rattles assembled by people of good intent but clearly not great grasp of the situation.
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Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.
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This is a very central part of the psychedelic attitude toward the world, to entertain all possibilities but to never commit to belief. Belief always being seen as a kind of trap, because if you belief something you are forever precluded from believing its opposite.
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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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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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Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.
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History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.
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That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.
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Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience.
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Our task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate.
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LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.
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The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.
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I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me happy.
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Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.
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You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.
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