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Impressionism is simply twenty minutes into LSD.
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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There is a sort of fair play, and if you can get in touch with that in your life, if you can have that perception, the world will begin to work for you, it will begin to move toward you... Nature loves courage, and it shows you that loves courage because it will remove obstacles.
Terence McKenna
What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that nature builds on previously established levels of complexity.
Terence McKenna
The message coming back at all of us is: live without closure.
Terence McKenna
What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.
Terence McKenna
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.
Terence McKenna
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.
Terence McKenna
A singularity is a place where the rules are broken. A miracle is a singularity.
Terence McKenna
The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of.
Terence McKenna
Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.
Terence McKenna
So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.
Terence McKenna
For unknown reasons, there is a tremendous concentration of psychoactive plants on the South American continent. The South American continent has more known hallucinogens than the rest of the planet combined.
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LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.
Terence McKenna
If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.
Terence McKenna
DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic.
Terence McKenna
The engineers of the future will be poets.
Terence McKenna
You can stand back and look at this planet and see that we have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love, and the community to produce a kind of human paradise.
Terence McKenna
Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
Terence McKenna
The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.
Terence McKenna
Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.
Terence McKenna
What they [psychedelics] cause is what I'm advocating, a fundamental revaluation of cultural values, because culture as we're practicing it currently is causing a lot of pain to a lot of people, and animals, and ecosystems, none of whom were ever allowed to vote on whether they wanted this process to go in this direction.
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