Ego Quotes by Terence McKenna

16 Ego quotes by Terence McKenna

Terence McKenna’s 16 musings blend psychedelic insight with cultural critique, probing how ego shapes perception and society. The language is vivid, inviting a fresh look at self‑construction.

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Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name…

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My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete…

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I think what's really happening is that a dialogue opens up between the ego and these larger, more integrated parts of the…

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Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved…

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The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.

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Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved…

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Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant…

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

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If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language.…

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The overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going…

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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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Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts…

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“Our culture, self-toxified by the poisonous by-products of technology and egocentric ideology, is the unhappy inheritor of the dominator attitude that alteration…

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One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You…

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You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.

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Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.

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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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