Terence McKenna Philosophical Quotes — Page 38

Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“To my mind this is what shamanic training must really be, is mnemonic training. If you want to bring the stuff back you have to train yourself to bring it back.”

Want Mind Training

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Terence McKenna

Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

Philosophical

“It's my belief that one of the unconscious reasons which underlies the odd attitude of the establishment toward hallucinogens is the fact that they bring the mystery to the surface as an individual experience. In other words, you do not understand the psychedelic experience by getting a report from Time magazine or even the Economist. You only understand the psychedelic experience by having it.”

Attitude Facts Hallucinogens

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Philosophical

“The possibility seems to be that what we call styles, or what we call motifs, are actually categories in the unconscious.”

Style Possibility Motifs

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Philosophical

“It's as important to be well informed in this area, if you're going to do it, as it is to be well informed about procedures in skin diving and that sort of thing if you're going to do that.”

Important Skins Diving

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Philosophical

“The thing that is so powerful about the psychedelics is that they perform on demand, which almost in principle you cannot expect of a mystical experience because that would be essentially man ordering God at man's whim, which is not how it's supposed to work.”

Men Powerful Mystical Experiences

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Philosophical

“And certainly when I reached La Chorerra in 1971 I had a price on my head by the FBI, I was running out of money, I was at the end of my rope. And then “THEY” recruited me and said, “you know, with a mouth like yours there's a place for you in our organization“. And I've worked in deep background positions about which the less said the better. And then about 15 years ago they shifted me into public relations and I've been there to the present.”

Years Running Organization

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Philosophical

“The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be dealt with.”

Waiting Forever Sky

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Philosophical

“Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.”

Ego Males Population

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Philosophical

“For unknown reasons, there is a tremendous concentration of psychoactive plants on the South American continent. The South American continent has more known hallucinogens than the rest of the planet combined.”

Reason Plant Hallucinogens

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Philosophical

“The shaman is a very peculiar figure. He is critical to the functioning of the psychological and social life of his community, but in a way he is always peripheral to it. He lives at the edge of the village. He is only called upon in matters of great social crisis. He is feared and respected. And this might be a description of these hallucinogenic substances.”

Community Substance Peculiar

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Philosophical

“What good is a theory of how the universe works if it’s a series of tensor equations that, even when understood, come nowhere tangential to experience? The only intellectual or noetic or spiritual path worth following is one that builds on personal experience”

Spiritual Intellectual Path

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Philosophical

“People are, in the confines of their own apartments, becoming Magellans of the interior world and reaching out to this alien thing and beginning to map it and bring back stories that can only be compared to the kind of stories that the chroniclers of the New World brought back to Spain at the close of the 15th century.”

People Stories Spain

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