Humans Quotes by Terence McKenna

For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.

— Terence McKenna

The human brain is the god of technological innovation.

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Human history is a Gaian dream.

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Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.

— Terence McKenna

The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.

— Terence McKenna

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

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Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.

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Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as…

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Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.

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The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.

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Only responsible human beings can exist in an anarchistic society.

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What the psychedelic experience really is, is opening the doorway into a lost continent of the human mind, a continent that we…

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It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul…

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Cyberspace is the human transition into a mathematical super space where we as a collectivity become optionally a single point of view.

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Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind…

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If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise,…

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We have outlived this embryo, this human cradle, and now it's time to be up and about the great business of becoming…

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If I can paraphrase Teilhard de Chardin for a moment, he said, or I will paraphrase in this way, 'When the human…

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And so, these are the things, the exploration of which, the singing about of which, makes us human beings. The exploration of…

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There’s light at the end of the tunnel. The problem is that tunnel is in the back of your mind. And if…

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We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from…

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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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We are living in a very pivotal time. The time that we inherit from science is a time to humble you, to…

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What is happening, I think, it's really bigger than psychedelics, it's bigger than human evolution. We are not making the waves in…

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It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet.…

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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've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of…

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We have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition…

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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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Not to know one's true identity is to be a mad, disensouled thing — a golem. And, indeed, this image, sick-eningly Orwellian,…

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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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The Truth doesn't need your cooperation to exist. All forms of cult, all forms of hype, all forms of delusion do require…

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It is now very clear that techniques of machine-human interfacing, pharmacology of the synthetic variety, all kinds of manipulative techniques, all kinds…

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Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men…

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

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The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see…

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The sensory ratios that are being reinforced by the new electronic technology are like the sensory ratios that were in place fifteen…

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It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would…

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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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You can stand back and look at this planet and see that we have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the…

— Terence McKenna