History Quotes by Terence McKenna

History is the siren song of the soul.

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History is rooted in the future

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Human history is a Gaian dream.

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Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.

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History is anomalous, and there is no way to get used to it.

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History is a series of approximations of the final singularity.

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The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of.

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The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.

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What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.

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It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it…

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History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.

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The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

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History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a 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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No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a…

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We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of…

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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…

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History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.

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The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a…

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Could any symbol be any more appropriate of the ambiguity of human transformation? What mushroom is it that grows at the end…

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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…

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The 'public' has no history, has no future, lives in a golden moment created by credit, which binds them ineluctably to a…

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Actually, the highest form of human organization is not realized in the democratic individual. It is realized in a dimension none of…

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My hope is that I may bear witness to the fact that there is a great mystery calling to us all, beckoning…

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Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for…

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I mean everybody knows there's something wrong with the world and if you read left wing politicians or deconstructionists or thoughtful historians…

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My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more…

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We are an intelligent species caught in an historical process. No generation which proceeded us knew what was going on, and there…

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“The ufo is nothing more than an assertion of herself by the Goddess into history, saying to science and paternalistically governed and…

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“History is ending because the dominator culture has led the human species into a blind alley, and as the inevitable chaostrophie approaches,…

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What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should…

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“From a historical point of view, restricting the availability of addictive substances must be seen as a peculiarly perverse example of Calvinist…

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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.

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The western mind, because of it's unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics.

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History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are…

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This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we…

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Psilocybin, tryptamine, is in my opinion the means to eliminating the future by becoming cognizant of the architecture of eternity, which is…

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This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all…

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