Terence McKenna Philosophical Quotes — Page 33

Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“Could any symbol be any more appropriate of the ambiguity of human transformation? What mushroom is it that grows at the end of history? Is it Stropharia cubensis, or is it the creation of Edward Teller? This is an unresolved problem.”

Problem Transformation Mushrooms

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Terence McKenna

Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy.”

Games Energy Miracle

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Philosophical

“I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.”

Thinking Men Understanding

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Philosophical

“What I always hoped for out of the psychedelic voyaging was to bring back something. I always felt, and still feel, that that is the attitude with which you should go into these things.”

Should Attitude Psychedelic

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Philosophical

“The thing that seemed to me so important about the psychedelic experience was that it happened to me. I wasn't reading John Chrysostom or Meister Eckhart. And so I assumed that I am a very ordinary person, therefore, if it happened to me it could happen to anyone.”

Important Reading Ordinary

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Philosophical

“I'm not an abuser. It takes me a long time to assimilate each experience. And I never have lost my respect for it. I mean I really feel dread. It is one of the emotions I always feel as I approach it, because I have no faith that my sails won't be ripped this time.”

Mean Long Emotion

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Philosophical

“Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory is the past recaptured and understood. In the fact of experiencing and making the present, we are all actors.”

Past Memories Discovery

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Philosophical

“A history-stopping archetype is being released into the skies of this planet, and if we are not careful it will halt all intellectual inquiry in the same way that the Christos archetype halted intellectual inquiry in the Hellenistic Age.”

Age Sky Intellectual

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Philosophical

“Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while plants hold fast. Plants live in a dimension characterised by solid state, the fixed and the enduring. If there is movement in the consciousness of plants then it must be the movement of spirit and attention in the domain of vegetal imagination. (...) This is the truth that the shamans have always known and practiced. Awareness of the green side of mind was called Veriditas by the twelfth century visionary Hildegard Von Bingen.”

Moving Animal Vegetables

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Philosophical

“Psychedelics are actually a kind of miraculous reality that can stand the test of objective examination.”

Reality Tests Examination

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Philosophical

“The thing is that it is incredibly frustrating to anyone who would control it, because you can't predict the impact of any technology before you put it in place.”

Technology Impact Frustrating

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Philosophical

“So when you look at the eschaton what you see, strangely enough, is your own face.”

Looks Faces Enough

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