Terence McKenna Philosophical Quotes — Page 30

Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“I'm not an advocate for everything that rolls out of the laboratory. I'm an advocate for things sanctioned by millennia of usage.”

Laboratory Usage

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Terence McKenna

Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“We're not going to save the monkey unless we can shed the monkey. And the greatest impetus, the greatest inspiration to the expression of our higher selves comes in the confrontation with psyche that occurs in the psychedelic experience.”

Self Inspiration Expression

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Philosophical

“The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.”

Manipulation Prey

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Philosophical

“Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language.”

World Matter

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Philosophical

“All the accoutrements that distinguish us from animal existence were put in place when we had a different kind of mind than we have now. We didn't have a mind that favored role specialization, and male dominance, and anxiety over female sexual activity related to feelings of male ownership. That all came later.”

Feelings Animal Anxiety

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Philosophical

“These religions that are so freighted with their own pomposity are no better than inspired guesses.”

Inspired Pomposity

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Philosophical

“We are an intelligent species caught in an historical process. No generation which proceeded us knew what was going on, and there is no reason to assume that we know what's going on or that the generation which follows us will know what's going on. And what kind of trip is it anyway to insist on knowing what's going on?”

Knowing Intelligent Historical

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Philosophical

“The psychedelic universe, whatever it is, is the major datum of experience. It's larger than this planet. Nobody knows how large it is. The further in you go the bigger it gets. We don't know what to make of something like that. It's the reverse of our expectations.”

Expectations Data Psychedelic

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Philosophical

“There is this persistent theme in all of these notions that death is made more easy, whatever that means, if you've learned the territory before you get there. And you know, in the Mahayana Buddhist situation it even becomes as extreme as saying; 'life is essentially a preparation for death, a studying of the maps of a learning of the skills a packing of your picnic basket so that when you get out there and demons are sniffing you up one side and down the other you don't bungle your mantras'.”

Mean Skills Buddhist

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Philosophical

“My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.”

Ideas Ego Enlightenment

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Philosophical

“The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Just as the history of yourself that you don't know is what your personal unconscious is made out of.”

Men Made Unconscious

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Philosophical

“The things I encounter that I call elves or gnomes, it's just a gloss. I mean, they're small, and they have the archetype. They're more like leprechauns, and this maybe raises a racial issue.”

Mean Issues Encounters

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