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Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind.

Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind.

Terence McKenna
Real, Mind, Psychedelic
"Technopagans at the End of History". Terence McKenna's speech at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, August 1998.

The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.

Terence McKenna
Creativity, Artist, Doctors

Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.

Terence McKenna
Intellectual, Taste, Ninety

This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in a voice which causes facts to be beheld by groups of people in a way that has been purged from profane language, for us relegated to poetry and that sort of thing.

Terence McKenna
Voice, People, Magic

If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.

Terence McKenna
Civilization, Names, Imagination

I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.

Terence McKenna
Thinking, Preparation, Marathon

Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

Terence McKenna
Philosophy, Branches, Shamanism

The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.

Terence McKenna
Space, Mind, Three

The way out then is personal responsibility, new operating systems downloaded from outside of culture, which means from the deeper wisdom of the psychedelic plants and then a commitment to community and a motto of "To the future, without fear!" Without fear!

Terence McKenna
Mean, Commitment, Responsibility

Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.

Terence McKenna
Lying, Smart, People

The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.

Terence McKenna
Long, Miracle, Predicaments

There is this persistent theme in all of these notions that death is made more easy, whatever that means, if you've learned the territory before you get there. And you know, in the Mahayana Buddhist situation it even becomes as extreme as saying; 'life is essentially a preparation for death, a studying of the maps of a learning of the skills a packing of your picnic basket so that when you get out there and demons are sniffing you up one side and down the other you don't bungle your mantras'.

Terence McKenna
Buddhist, Mean, Skills

Psychedelics can carry you farther and faster than most people care to go. Once you get to psychedelics, it's no longer a matter of seeking the answer, you have found the answer. Now the issue changes dramatically, you must face the answer.

Terence McKenna
Issues, People, Answers

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

Terence McKenna
Inspirational, Life, Nature

We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.

Terence McKenna
Dropping Out, Psychedelic, Dropping

Ayahuasca loves to take prideful people and rub their nose in it. I mean it can make you beg for mercy like nothing. You have to really approach it humbly.

Terence McKenna
Mean, Ayahuasca, People

The mind is the cutting edge of the evolving event system.

Terence McKenna
Cutting, Mind, Events

I think the entire message of the psychedelic experience, which is basically the sine qua non of the rebirth of alchemical understanding, the very basis of that understanding is that nature seeks to communicate.

Terence McKenna
Thinking, Understanding, Messages

Thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations.

Terence McKenna
Thinking, Welcome, Social
Interview with Tom Hodgkinson (1993) as quoted in Tom Hodgkinson "How to be idle", 2004.

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.

Terence McKenna
Mean, Long, Emotion

The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.

Terence McKenna
Tools, Inspection, Immense

It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.

Terence McKenna
Law, World, Levels
"Terence Mckenna's Last Trip". WIRED Inteview, www.wired.com. May 1, 2000.

Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.

Terence McKenna
Self, Disease, Alcoholism

It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know... You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You'll have that!

Terence McKenna
Dmt, Want, Example

As I see it, Being, the Cosmos, whatever you want to call it, is a struggle between two implacable forces: Novelty on the one side and habit on the other side.

Terence McKenna
Struggle, Two, Cosmos

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