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

“Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This is the way engineers get high. They go to the moon!”

Moon Getting High Voyages

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Terence McKenna

Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art.”

Art Way Facts

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Philosophical

“Memory training is great psychedelic training.”

Memories Training

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Philosophical

“If reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before.”

Way Reality

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Philosophical

“Flying saucers are nothing more than miracles, and they occur essentially to bedevil science.”

Miracle Flying Flying Saucers

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Philosophical

“This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call 'civilization' has been all about.”

Unique Language Civilization

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Philosophical

“Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.”

Together Culture Becoming

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Philosophical

“That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.”

Mind Organized Core

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Philosophical

“What we call three dimensional space, and what we call the imagination actually have a contiguous and continuous transformation from one into the other, ... and THIS is big news!”

Space Imagination Three

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Philosophical

“But technology is the real skin of our species. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last five hundred years, is an extruder of technological material. We take in matter that has a low degree of organization; we put it through mental filters, and we extrude jewelry, gospels, space shuttles. This is what we do. We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects. All our tool making implies our belief in an ultimate tool. That tool is the flying saucer, or the soul, exteriorized in three-dimensional space.”

Real Animal Technology

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Philosophical

“Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of this complex of ecstasy now is the word comfort, a tremendously bloodless notion. Drugs are not comfortable, and anyone who thinks they are comfortable or even escapist should not toy with drugs unless they’re willing to get their noses rubbed in their own stuff.”

Thinking Joy Empathy

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Philosophical

“If I can paraphrase Teilhard de Chardin for a moment, he said, or I will paraphrase in this way, 'When the human race understands the potential of the hallucinogenic drug experience, it will have discovered fire for the second time.'”

Race Fire Drug

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