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To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.

To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.

Terence McKenna
Thinking, Understanding, Enterprise

The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.

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Unique, Self, Molecules

This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all about, we are edge-walking on an ontological transformation of what it means to be human.

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Mean, Drug, Facts

Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.

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Kind, Building, Excellent

‎The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.

Terence McKenna
Wisdom, Moving, Inward

I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me happy.

Terence McKenna
Believe, Reality, Working Very Hard

To contact the cosmic giggle, to have the flow of casuistry begin to give off synchronistic ripples, whitecaps in the billows of the coincidental ether, if you will. To achieve that, a precondition is a kind of unconsciousness, a kind of drifting, a certain taking-your-eye-off-the-ball, a certain assumptions that things are simpler than they are, almost always precedes what Mircea Eliade called ‘the rupture of plane’ that indicates that there is an archetypal world, an archetypal power behind profane appearances.

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Eye, Giving, Balls

A global society is coming into being, a global society that is made out of information that was not intended to be ours, but is ours, by the mistaken invention of computers and the printing press, information is power, and information has spilled by the clumsy hands of the dominator culture so that the information is everywhere, never before has the situation been so fluid, we might be able to finally have a crack at this

Terence McKenna
Information Is Power, Hands, Cracks

History is rooted in the future

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Historical, Rooted

The movement of a single atom from one known position to another known position changes an experience from nothing to overwhelming. This means that mind and matter at the quantum mechanical level are all spun together.

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Mean, Mind, Together
Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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.

Terence McKenna
Reality, Ordinary, Robots

We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.

Terence McKenna
Believe, Ideas, Giving

Alchemy is really the secret tradition of the redemption of spirit from matter.

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Inspirational, Life, Secret

Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types today don't understand that it's not important to maintain control if you are not in control in the first place.

Terence McKenna
Losing Control, Views, Important
Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham (2001). “Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness”, p.50, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.

Terence McKenna
Believe, Belief, Form

Cultural conditioning is like bad software. Over and over it's diddled with and re-written so that it can just run on the next attempt. But there is cultural hardware, and it's that cultural hardware, otherwise known as authentic being, that we are propelled toward by the example of the shaman and the techniques of the shaman. ... Shamanism therefore is a call to authenticity.

Terence McKenna
Running, Technique, Example

Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.

Terence McKenna
Alive, Earth, Matter
"True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival".

The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are precisely the tendencies in our psychological makup that the psychedelics mitigate. The plant hallucinogens dissolve habits and hold motivations up to inspection by a wider, less egocentric, and more grounded point of view within the individual.

Terence McKenna
Motivation, Views, Drug
Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You cannot evolve faster than your language because the language defines the culture of meaning. So if there's a way to accelerate the evolution of language then this is real consciousness expansion and it's a permanent thing. The great legacies of the 60's are in attitudes and language. It boils down to doing your own thing, feeling the vibe, ego-trip, blowing your mind.

Terence McKenna
Attitude, Real, Thinking

A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

Terence McKenna
Fall, Teaching, Reality

Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.

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Moving, Animal, Dmt

I think that's the job of each of us - to show our best toys and our best tricks that lift us and our friends to higher and higher levels. There is no end to this bootstrapping process. The future of the human mind and body and the future of humans together is endlessly bright.

Terence McKenna
Jobs, Thinking, Mind

It seems to me far more likely that an advanced civilization would communicate inter dimensionally and telepathically.

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Civilization, Communicate, Seems

Only responsible human beings can exist in an anarchistic society.

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Responsible, Humans, Human Beings

My voice speaking is a monkey's mouth making little mouth noises that are carrying agree-upon meaning, and it is meaning that matters. Without the meaning one has only little mouth noises

Terence McKenna
Voice, Agree Upon, Mouths

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