Civilization Quotes by Terence McKenna

14 Civilization quotes by Terence McKenna

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McKenna’s mind roamed beyond conventional boundaries, and his thoughts on humanity’s collective path reflect that wild curiosity. Fourteen succinct observations invite readers to consider civilization through an altered lens.

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Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

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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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It seems to me far more likely that an advanced civilization would communicate inter dimensionally and telepathically.

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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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The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a…

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What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's…

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This unique strategy that the advanced primates created, the strategy of using language to bind time, is what the process we call…

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So the conclusion that I reach, visa vie the individual and civilization, is this: Culture is not our friend. Culture is not…

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If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a…

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And what we're looking toward is a moment when the artificial language structures which bind us within the notion of ourselves are…

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If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow…

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The idea of psychedelic societies is something new. And it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone takes the drug. It merely means that…

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The smart people who are straight are involved in simply the media management of what has turned into a slow apocalypse, spreading…

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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…

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

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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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