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 shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.”

Artist Creativity Doctors

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Terence McKenna

Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.”

Space Phases Psychedelic

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Philosophical

“I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky.”

People Thinking

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Philosophical

“LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.”

Different Personality

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Philosophical

“Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes.”

Sometimes Joy Emotion

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Philosophical

“We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort.”

Absence Neurosis Pipeline

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Philosophical

“I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.”

Thinking World Ideas

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Philosophical

“In a sense, what's happening is that the unconscious mind is a luxury the human species cannot afford at this point in our dilemma, and so the unconscious mind is simply rising into consciousness by being hardwired into this global infrastructure.”

Mind Luxury Rising

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Philosophical

“The Logos is a voice heard, in the head. And the Logos was the hand on the rudder of human civilization for centuries, up until, in fact, the collapse of the ancient mystery religions and the ascendancy of Christianity to the status of a world religion.”

Hands Voice World Religions

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Philosophical

“Culture is more and more consciously becoming a project carried out in the domain of language by, for instance, propaganda both governmental and commercial.”

Culture Language Becoming

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Philosophical

“I think institutions will inevitably substitute a rite or a ritual for the authentic, for the real McCoy, because then priests can control the pipeline to god, and the parishioner can approach with offerings. But if everybody can have a pipeline to deity, why then the whole priest scam is put out of business.”

Thinking Real Offering

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Philosophical

“What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless singing.”

Thinking Long Singing

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