Terence McKenna Spiritual Quotes — Page 4

Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

Spiritual

“The idea of psychedelic societies is something new. And it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone takes the drug. It merely means that the complexity and the mysteriousness of mind are centered in the consciousness of the civilization as the mystery which it comes from and which it must relate to in order to be relevant.”

Mean Order Civilization

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Terence McKenna

Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

Spiritual

“We are creatures of information and the imagination. The monkey we are already beginning to transform and shed. We don't look like the other monkeys, and we look less like them all the time.”

Looks Imagination Monkeys

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Spiritual

“We can't sell short the spiritual power of cannabis, especially when eaten.”

Spiritual Cannabis

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Spiritual

“Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.”

Ecstasy Shamanism

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Spiritual

“The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of the planet with safety.”

Technology Imagination Safety

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Spiritual

“A global society is coming into being, a global society that is made out of information that was not intended to be ours, but is ours, by the mistaken invention of computers and the printing press, information is power, and information has spilled by the clumsy hands of the dominator culture so that the information is everywhere, never before has the situation been so fluid, we might be able to finally have a crack at this”

Hands Cracks Information Is Power

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Spiritual

“In shamanism and certain yogas, Taoist yoga, claim very clearly that the purpose is to familiarize yourself with this after-death body, in life, and then the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche. You will recognize what is happening. You will know what to do. And you will make the clean break.”

Yoga Dying Confusion

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Spiritual

“Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to tolerate its splendor. It can't just reveal itself openly because we would be forfeited; we'd never know what hit us.”

Would Be Able Touching

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Spiritual

“We are all cells of a much larger body, and like the cells of our own body it is hard for us to glimpse the whole pattern of the whole of what is happening, and yet we can sense that there is a purpose, and there is a pattern.”

Purpose Cells Glimpse

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Spiritual

“The psychedelic experience is the beginning of the spiritual path. That's why it's not important that yogas' claim that they can deliver you the psychedelic experience, because it begins with the psychedelic experience, and then you go from there.”

Important Spiritual Yoga

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Spiritual

“One reaches through to the continents and oceans of the imagination, worlds able to sustain anyone who will but play, and then lets the play deepen and deepen until it is a reality that few would even dare to entertain...The human imagination is the holographic organ of the human body, and we don't 'imagine' anything. We simply see things so far away that there is no possibility of validating or invalidating their existence.”

Play Reality Ocean

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Spiritual

“The same organizational principles which called us forth into self-reflection have called forth self-reflection out of the planet itself. And the problem then is for us to suspect this, act on our suspicion, and be good detectives, and track down the spirit in its lair. And this is what shamans are doing. They are hunters of spirit.”

Self Reflection Track

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Terence McKenna — Spiritual Quotes

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