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

“Information is just simply bootstrapping itself to higher and higher levels of self-reflection and self-coordination using whatever means are necessary.”

Mean Self Reflection

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Terence McKenna

Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“Obviously, it's some kind of freely commanded modality in the psyche with which we can have a relationship if we will but evolve a control language and a dialogue. And it remains mysterious.”

Kind Language Mysterious

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Philosophical

“I think there's a shamanic temperament, which is a person who craves knowledge, knowledge in the Greek sense of gnosis. In other words, knowledge not of the sort where you subscribe to Scientific American, and it validates what you believe, but cosmologies constructed out of immediate experiences that are found to be always applicable.”

Thinking Believe Gnosis

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Philosophical

“There has been no progress in 60,000 years in reducing the psychedelic experience to a known quantity. It is as terrifying, as awesome, as ecstatic, as irreducible to us as it was to them.”

Years Progress Psychedelic

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Philosophical

“Buddhism is a heresy on Hinduism. It was Hinduism that did the dirty work for Buddhism, by the time Buddha came along priest-craft was an ancient tradition in India.”

Buddhism Dirty India

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Philosophical

“Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed”

Art Names Ego

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Philosophical

“Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.”

Philosophy Branches Shamanism

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Philosophical

“What we really are is a community of mind, knitted together by codes and symbols, intuitions, aspirations, histories, hopes - the invisible world of the human experience is far more real to us than the visible world, which is little more than a kind of stage or screen on which we move.”

Real Moving Community

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Philosophical

“What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.”

Decadence

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Philosophical

“It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue, and Hollywood, and what have you.”

People Culture Hollywood

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Philosophical

“I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions.”

Thinking Understanding Institutions

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Philosophical

“In cyberspace things are built out of light.”

Light Built Cyberspace

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