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 immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.”

Men Lying Imagination

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Terence McKenna

Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“Inside the boundaries of the old paradigm there's no hope, there's no way out of the box of capitalism, monogamy, consumer fetishism, egoism, money worship, no way out. No way. No way out!”

Way Worship Boundaries

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Philosophical

“I do not think that the government, under the guise of some phony, alarmist, pseudo-scientific rhetoric, should attempt to control the evolution of consciousness. After all, if these things truly are consciousness-expanding, it doesn't take too much intelligence to realize that it is the absence of consciousness that is causing our flirtation with extinction and planetary disaster.”

Thinking Government Extinction

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Philosophical

“We now know enough to fantasize realistically about what the alien would be like, and I think that this then sets up polarities in the collective psyche that previously we have only seen at the level of the individual.”

Thinking Would Be Levels

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Philosophical

“Man was not put on this planet to toil in the mud. Or the god who put us on this planet to toil in the mud is no god I want to have any part of. It's some kind of gnostic demon. It's some kind of cannibalistic demiurge that should be thoroughly renounced and rejected.”

Men Want Toil

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Philosophical

“I believe that what makes the psychedelic experience so central is that it is a connection into a larger modality of organization on the planet, which is a fancy way of saying it connects you up to the mind of Nature Herself.”

Believe Mind Organization

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Philosophical

“The world could be anything, you know, It could be a solid state matrix of some sort. It could be an illusion. It could be a dream. I mean it really could be a dream.”

Mean World Dream

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Philosophical

“The psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it.”

People Path Psychedelic

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Philosophical

“We are living in a state of constant scientific revolution. There is not a single area that you can name that is now seen as it was seen a hundred years ago. Nothing is left of the world view of one hundred years ago.”

Years Names Views

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Philosophical

“One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.”

People Library Psychedelic

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Philosophical

“I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism.”

Believe Shamanism Hallucinogens

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Philosophical

“What is needed, is an awakening.”

Needed Awakening

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