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 real truth that dare not speak itself, is that no one is in control, absolutely no one... Nobody is in control. This stuff is ruled by the equations of dynamics and chaos. Now, there may be entities seeking control - the World Bank, the Communist Party, the rich, the somebody-or-others - but to seek control is to take enormous aggravation upon yourself... It's like trying to control a dream.”

Real Dream Aggravation

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Terence McKenna

Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.”

Thinking Mean Unanswered Questions

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Philosophical

“All information is everywhere. Information that is not here is nowhere.”

Information

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Philosophical

“The message coming back at all of us is: live without closure.”

Messages Coming Back

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Philosophical

“We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being.”

Needs Metaphor

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Philosophical

“I think that the whole thing, the crux of the whole psychedelic issue, is that it accentuates personal responsibility by making people take their own experiences seriously.”

Thinking Responsibility Issues

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Philosophical

“You will ride the Tao toward the concrescence and will be able to live in the light of its anticipation.”

Light Able Tao

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Philosophical

“One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic knowledge is available.”

Thinking Culture Psychedelic

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Philosophical

“Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.”

Ideas Animal Raw Materials

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Philosophical

“[This legendary Amazonian substance is] a cybernetic transdimentional medium of some sort that is generated out of the mysteries of the physiology of the human body.”

Body Mystery Substance

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Philosophical

“If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's an absence of consciousness that is making this historical transition so excruciating.”

Taken Historical Transition

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Philosophical

“The 'public' has no history, has no future, lives in a golden moment created by credit, which binds them ineluctably to a fascist system that is never criticized. This is the ultimate consequence of having broken off this symbiotic relationship with the vegetable, feminine, maternal matrix of the planet.”

Broken Vegetables Golden

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