Terence McKenna quotes - page 2

What's happening is that 8% of the world's people use 35% of the world's petroleum, and are ready to blow everybody off the map to keep it that way. This is nothing more than a manifestation of junkie psychology on a mass scale. We're addicted, they got it, we're happy to pay for it, but if they won't sell it we'll break into their house and take it, because by god it will go into our right arm. that's the plan. (Terence McKenna)
You need an Ego, if you didn't have an ego you wouldn't know who's mouth to put food in, when eating in a restaurant. View quote
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We are caged by our cultural programming. Culture is a mass hallucination, and when you step outside the mass hallucination you see it for what it's worth. View quote
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I've been thinking like this since 1968, talking about it like this since 1980, but I never knew what... how it would come or what it would be. In the last few years, with the rise of a technological, a cultural artefact like the internet, I now see how it will make its way into the world. We are building the nervous system of the human oversoul. We are individual units operating under social rules that are pushing us ever closer toward dissolving our societies... societies-human groups run by rules-into telepathic collectivities of some sort. ... We have come to the end of our sojourn in matter. We have come to the end of our separateness. View quote
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One exists in eternity, one has become eternal ... One is then apart from the moving image; one exists in the completion of eternity. View quote
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You simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead and get with the program of a living world and the imagination. View quote
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History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness. View quote
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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat. View quote
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The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere. View quote
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Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced. View quote
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What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance. (Terence McKenna)
We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don't matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else. View quote
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You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding. View quote
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It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it. View quote
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There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules. View quote
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We cannot expect to cross the rainbow bridge through a good act of contrition; that will not be sufficient. We have to understand. View quote
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You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness. View quote
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves. View quote
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Half the time you think your thinking you're actually listening. View quote
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You see, a secret is not something untold. It's something which can't be told. View quote
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation. (Terence McKenna)
Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet. View quote
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You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms. View quote
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Only psychos and shamans create their own reality. View quote
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Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you? View quote
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