Century Quotes by Terence McKenna

13 Century quotes by Terence McKenna

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McKenna’s perspective on a hundred‑year stretch feels like a mind‑expanding trip. These few lines capture his curiosity about consciousness, culture, and the next steps of humanity.

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Transformation of language through psychedelic drugs is a central factor of the evolution of the social matrix of the rest of the…

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In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.

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The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in…

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Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come…

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Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.

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To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.

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Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the…

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The Logos is a voice heard, in the head. And the Logos was the hand on the rudder of human civilization for…

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People are, in the confines of their own apartments, becoming Magellans of the interior world and reaching out to this alien thing…

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This is where I think the psychedelics come in because they are anticipations of the future. They seem to channel information that…

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In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the…

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Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while…

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The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human…

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History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.

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We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the…

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The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Just as the history of yourself that you…

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We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.

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What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense…

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What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.

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And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.

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Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types…

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