Terence McKenna — Philosophical Quotes

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Terence McKenna Quotes

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Terence McKenna

Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“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.”

Children Moving Past

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Terence McKenna

Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“Cultivate an ongoing stream of self-description, telling yourself what is happening. Get used to the idea that mind can penetrate the immediate surface of being and reveal the tactile density of it as a manifold whose measure cannot be immediately taken by the eyes, that it's deep, it's connected, it's complex. Everything holds within itself the anticipation and the memory of everything else.”

Eye Memories Taken

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Philosophical

“The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being.”

Mind Reality Primaries

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Philosophical

“It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind.”

Mind Becoming

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Philosophical

“Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most.”

Doe Mathematics

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Philosophical

“We can move no faster than the evolution of our language, and this is certainly part of what the psychedelics are about: they force the evolution of language.”

Moving Evolution Psychedelic

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Philosophical

“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.”

Culture Civilization Individual

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Philosophical

“It seems to me that information is the thing which uses matter, uses light, uses spirit, uses whatever it can put its hands on to organize itself into higher and higher levels of self-reflection.”

Self Hands Reflection

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Philosophical

“Even a billion people is too much. There's no way back to the simplicity we once knew, but there may be a way forward to the simplicity that we once knew.”

People Simplicity Way Forward

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Philosophical

“It puts people who are into this psychedelic thing in an entirely different stance from all other spiritual seekers, because all other spiritual seekers are furiously seeking. Psychedelic people are holding it back with all their power, because they are in the presence of the mystery. And then the trick is to get a spigot on it so that it can be turned on and off rather than coming at you like a tidal wave a mile high and twenty miles wide.”

People Spiritual Twenties

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Philosophical

“The content of the dialogue with 'the Other' is a content that indicates that man's horizons are infinitely bright, that death is in fact, well, as Thomas Vaughn put it, 'the body is the placenta of the soul'”

Men Soul Horizon

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Philosophical

“Escape into the dream. Escape, a key thing charged against these drugs, that they are for escapists. I think the people who make this charge hardly dare dream to what degree they are escapist.”

Thinking Dream Keys

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