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What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings, which has always been a great puzzle to evolutionary theory, I believe,

What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings, which has always been a great puzzle to evolutionary theory, I believe, occurred in the presence of a kind of catalyst for the human imagination.

Terence McKenna
Believe, Imagination, Expansion

Our task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate.

Terence McKenna
Tasks, Memes, Replicate

If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new community that is wider and deeper than you know. The people who are building the new machines, who are designing the new circuitry, who are writing the new code are ALL freaks. They work for capitalist dogs, of course, because we all do, but the creative thrust of these technologies is being driven by people just like you and me.

Terence McKenna
Dog, Writing, Technology

The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.

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

What is needed, is an awakening.

Terence McKenna
Awakening, Needed

The shaman has access to a superhuman dimension and a superhuman condition, and by being able to do that he affirms the potential for transcendence in all people. He is an exemplar, if you will.

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People, Able, Dimensions

I think what's really happening is that a dialogue opens up between the ego and these larger, more integrated parts of the psyche that are normally hidden from view.

Terence McKenna
Thinking, Views, Ego

The thing is that it is incredibly frustrating to anyone who would control it, because you can't predict the impact of any technology before you put it in place.

Terence McKenna
Technology, Impact, Frustrating

Psychedelics are actually a kind of miraculous reality that can stand the test of objective examination.

Terence McKenna
Reality, Examination, Tests

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

Terence McKenna
Ocean, Ideas, Imagination
Rupert Sheldrake, Terence McKenna, Ralph Abraham (2001). “Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness”, p.47, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co

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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Democratic Ideals, People, Might

Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.

Terence McKenna
Mind Blowing, Apes, Facts

So when you look at the eschaton what you see, strangely enough, is your own face.

Terence McKenna
Looks, Faces, Enough

The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.

Terence McKenna
Imagination, World, Body

I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language develops, and therefore regulate human culture generally.

Terence McKenna
Culture, Pheromones, Levels

We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place.

Terence McKenna
Dmt, Long, Mind Blowing

But a mature humanity could get into a place where we no longer required these metaphysical spankings from messiahs and flying saucers that come along every thousand years or so to mess up the mess that has been created and try and send people off on another tack. And the way to do this is to look at the abysses that confront man as species and individuals and try to unify them. And I think that psilocybin offers a way out because it allows a dialogue with the over-mind. You won't read about it in "Scientific American" or anywhere else. You will carry it out.

Terence McKenna
Men, Thinking, Years

What I always hoped for out of the psychedelic voyaging was to bring back something. I always felt, and still feel, that that is the attitude with which you should go into these things.

Terence McKenna
Attitude, Psychedelic, Should

A history-stopping archetype is being released into the skies of this planet, and if we are not careful it will halt all intellectual inquiry in the same way that the Christos archetype halted intellectual inquiry in the Hellenistic Age.

Terence McKenna
Sky, Intellectual, Age

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.

Terence McKenna
Attitude, Believe, Opposites

There is a belief that there is a hyperobject called Overmind, or God, that casts a shadow into time. History is our group experience if this shadow. As one draws closer and closer to the source of the shadow, the paradoxes intensify, the rate of change intensifies. What is happening is that the hyperobject is beginning to ingress into three-dimensional space.

Terence McKenna
Space, Shadow, Groups

The thing that seemed to me so important about the psychedelic experience was that it happened to me. I wasn't reading John Chrysostom or Meister Eckhart. And so I assumed that I am a very ordinary person, therefore, if it happened to me it could happen to anyone.

Terence McKenna
Reading, Important, Ordinary

Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory is the past recaptured and understood. In the fact of experiencing and making the present, we are all actors.

Terence McKenna
Memories, Past, Discovery
Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.

Terence McKenna
Thinking, Imagination, Way

DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen there is. If it gets stronger than that I don't want to know about it.

Terence McKenna
Powerful, Dmt, Stronger

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