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The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature.

The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature.

Terence McKenna
Life, Nature, Dmt

We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.

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Greek, Events, Human Experience

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.

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Mind, Needs, Dirt

It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.

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Technology, Political, Acting

There is no contradiction between technology and spirit. There is no contradiction between the search for intellectual integration and understanding and the psychedelic experience. There is no contradiction between ultra-advanced hyperspacial cyber culture and Paleolithic archaic culture. We have come to the end of our sojourn in matter. We have come to the end of our separateness.

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Technology, Understanding, Intellectual

Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.

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Drug, Television, Nevertheless

Cyberspace is the human transition into a mathematical super space where we as a collectivity become optionally a single point of view.

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Views, Space, Transition

I'm not an advocate for everything that rolls out of the laboratory. I'm an advocate for things sanctioned by millennia of usage.

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Usage, Laboratory

In 1948, television was introduced, and millions and millions of people lead larval, low-awareness, warehoused lives mainlining an electronic drug straight into their brains.

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People, Drug, Brain

So the conclusion that I reach, visa vie the individual and civilization, is this: Culture is not our friend. Culture is not your friend. It's not my friend. It's a very uncomfortable set of accommodations that have been hammered out over time for the convenience of institutions.

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Civilization, Culture, Individual

Patanjali specifically says that there are three paths to the goal of yoga. And they are, control of the breath, control of posture, and light-filled herbs. It says it right there. Stanza 6 of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.

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Yoga, Light, Goal

I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off. You either love them or you hate them, and that's because they dissolve world views. And if you like the experience of having your entire ontological structure disappear out from under you, if you think that's a thrill, you'll probably love psychedelics.

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Hate, Thinking, Views

We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the future - we are going hyper-spatial; we are claiming a whole new dimension for biology that it never claimed before. We are actually becoming a fourth-dimensional kind of creature. Our future is somehow with us, as we seem to be able to move through metamorphosis into our own imaginations - a super civilization spread throughout space and time. Our future is a mystery, our destiny is to live in the imagination.

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Children, Moving, Past

We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of so much power that we now must understand what we are. We cannot travel much further with the definitions of man that we inherit from the Judeo-Christian tradition. We need to truly explore the problem of consciousness.

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Christian, Taken, Men

It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.

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People, Strategy, Advantage

The testimony of DMT, for me, is that there is a nearby dimension, teeming with intelligences, that from one of the more conservative perspectives seems like an ecology of souls.

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Dmt, Perspective, Soul

We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being.

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Needs, Metaphor

Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the “thou shalts” and “thou should”, but rather a recovery of the real ambiguity of being and an ability to see ourselves as at once powerful and weak, noble and ignoble, future-oriented, past-facing.

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Powerful, Real, Lying

What the psychedelic experience really is, is opening the doorway into a lost continent of the human mind, a continent that we have almost lost all connection to, and the nature of this lost world of the human mind is that it is a Gaian entelechy.

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Mind, Connections, World

Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.

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Inspirational, Life, Art
Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

I believe that the totemic image for the future is the octopus. This is because the squids and octopi have perfected a form of communication that is both psychedelic and telepathic; a model for the human communications of the future. In the not-too-distant future men and women may shed the monkey body to become virtual octopi swimming in a silicon sea.

Terence McKenna
Believe, Communication, Swimming
Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

We [psychonauts] are all going to go into the books as pioneers, because it's too early for us to be anything else. There's no map, no finished database, just anecdotes of the crazy, crazy stuff that goes on. That's why it's so important to try and share [our stories].

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Crazy, Book, Important

What the psychedelics are for us as a species, rather than for each one of us as an individual, what they are for us as a species is an enzyme that catalyzes the language-making capacity.

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Enzymes, Language, Individual

And what is shamanism but philosophy with a hands-on attitude. Philosophy not made around the camp fire, but philosophy based on the acquisition of extreme experience. That's how you figure out what the world is, not by bicycling around in the burbs, but by forcing extreme experience.

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Attitude, Philosophy, Fire

In a sense, what's happening is that the unconscious mind is a luxury the human species cannot afford at this point in our dilemma, and so the unconscious mind is simply rising into consciousness by being hardwired into this global infrastructure.

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Luxury, Mind, Rising

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