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

“The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along.”

Helping Drug Shamanism

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Terence McKenna

Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky.”

Believe Issues Tacky

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Philosophical

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

Life Animal

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Philosophical

“The apocalypse is the millennium, and the psychedelics move you into the future.”

Moving Apocalypse

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Philosophical

“Certainly neo-Platonism, Plotinus and Porphyry and that school are psychedelic philosophers. Their idea of an ascending hierarchy of more and more rarefied states is a sophisticated presentation of the shamanic cosmology, which is the cosmology that one experientially discovers when they involve themselves with psychedelics.”

Ideas School Ascending

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Philosophical

“Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the century.”

Drug Evolution Psychedelic

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Philosophical

“Thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations.”

Thinking Social

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Philosophical

“Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.”

Self Disease

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Philosophical

“Tribalism is a social form which can exist at any level of technology. It's a complete illusion to associate it with low levels of technology. It is probably, in fact, a form of social organization second only to the family in its ability to endure.”

Technology Levels Organization

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Philosophical

“One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.”

Keys Attention Buddhist

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Philosophical

“If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.”

Names Imagination Civilization

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Philosophical

“Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.”

Process Clock Clicks

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