Terence McKenna — Philosophical Quotes

553 quotes · Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

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Terence McKenna Quotes

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Terence McKenna

Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“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.”

Understanding Community Mind Blowing

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Terence McKenna

Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.”

Magic Bed Mind Blowing

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Philosophical

“I spend as many hours a day as I possibly can smoking cannabis”

Hours

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Philosophical

“You're immortal as long as you live.”

Long Immortal

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Philosophical

“Only psychos and shamans create their own reality”

Reality Psycho

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Philosophical

“Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago there was no other form of religion on this planet. That was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred.”

People Years Firsts

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Philosophical

“Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.”

People Form Fiction

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Philosophical

“The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it’s only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse.”

Luxury Mind Blowing Blowing It

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Philosophical

“What the churches are peddling is high abstraction, and you really have to work yourself up into a lather to be able to accept that as worthy of that kind of attention. The psychedelic subset of society is into an experience, and it's accessible.”

Able Attention Church

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Philosophical

“Not to know one's true identity is to be a mad, disensouled thing — a golem. And, indeed, this image, sick-eningly Orwellian, applies to the mass of human beings now living in the high-tech industrial democracies. Their authenticity lies in their ability to obey and follow mass style changes that are conveyed through the media. Immersed in junk food, trash media, and cryp-tofascist politics, they are condemned to toxic lives of low awareness. Sedated by the prescripted daily television fix, they are a living dead, lost to all but the act of consuming.”

Lying Media True Identity

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Philosophical

“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.”

Mean Mind Together

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Philosophical

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

Mind Space Three

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