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title: "Best Humans Quotes by Terence McKenna"
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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/the-sensory-ratios-that-are-being-reinforced-by-the-new-electronic/)

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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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/if-in-fact-the-conservation-and-complexification-of-novelty-is-what/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/think-about-our-dilemma-on-this-planet-if-the-expansion-of/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/and-so-these-are-the-things-the-exploration-of-which-the-singing/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/we-have-outlived-this-embryo-this-human-cradle-and-now-it-s-time-to/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/if-i-can-paraphrase-teilhard-de-chardin-for-a-moment-he-said-or-i/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/it-is-the-imagination-that-argues-for-the-divine-spark-within-human/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/what-the-psychedelic-experience-really-is-is-opening-the-doorway-into/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/and-what-we-re-looking-toward-is-a-moment-when-the-artificial/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/where-psychedelics-comes-together-with-that-is-that-it-s-going-to/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/the-logos-is-a-voice-heard-in-the-head-and-the-logos-was-the-hand-on/)

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> [What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/what-s-popularly-known-as-the-evolution-of-consciousness-in-other/)

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> [One reaches through to the continents and oceans of the imagination, worlds able to sustain anyone who will but play, and then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/one-reaches-through-to-the-continents-and-oceans-of-the-imagination/)

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> [So I submit to you that what we represent is a Fifth Column, a Fifth Column that represents the best aspirations that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/so-i-submit-to-you-that-what-we-represent-is-a-fifth-column-a-fifth/)

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> [We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/we-are-reaping-the-fruits-of-ten-thousand-fifty-thousand-years-of/)

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> [It's possible to see the whole human growth movement of the 1970s as a wish to continue the inward quest without having…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/it-s-possible-to-see-the-whole-human-growth-movement-of-the-1970s-as/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/cyberspace-is-the-human-transition-into-a-mathematical-super-space/)

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> [The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/the-psychedelic-issue-is-a-civil-rights-and-civil-liberties-issue-it/)

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> [I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/i-m-proposing-on-one-level-that-hallucinogens-be-thought-of-as-almost/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/even-as-the-nineteenth-century-had-to-come-to-grips-with-the-notion/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/could-any-symbol-be-any-more-appropriate-of-the-ambiguity-of-human/)

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> [The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/the-human-imagination-which-is-our-great-glory-has-grown-so-powerful/)

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> [Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/eros-is-an-ego-overwhelming-boundary-dissolving-breakthrough-creating/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/it-seems-to-me-that-right-under-the-surface-of-human-neurological/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/the-shaman-is-the-figure-at-the-beginning-of-human-history-that/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/you-can-stand-back-and-look-at-this-planet-and-see-that-we-have-the/)

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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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/it-is-no-coincidence-that-a-rebirth-of-psychedelic-use-is-occuring-as/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/the-smart-people-who-are-straight-are-involved-in-simply-the-media/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/we-are-living-in-a-very-pivotal-time-the-time-that-we-inherit-from/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/what-is-happening-i-think-it-s-really-bigger-than-psychedelics-it-s/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/we-want-freedom-we-want-freedom-from-the-constraints-of-the-cycles-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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/there-s-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-the-problem-is-that-tunnel-is/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/actually-the-highest-form-of-human-organization-is-not-realized-in/)

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> [The Earth itself is stepping in to aid in the agenda of cultural transformation. There are too many doorways in nature that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/the-earth-itself-is-stepping-in-to-aid-in-the-agenda-of-cultural/)

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> [We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/we-can-no-longer-have-forbidden-areas-of-the-human-mind-or-cultural/)

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> [The planet has a kind of intelligence, it can actually open a channel of communication with an individual human being. The message…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/the-planet-has-a-kind-of-intelligence-it-can-actually-open-a-channel/)

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> [DMT is a reliable method for crossing in to a dimension that human beings have debated the existence of for 50.000 years.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/dmt-is-a-reliable-method-for-crossing-in-to-a-dimension-that-human/)

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> [I think that's the job of each of us - to show our best toys and our best tricks that lift us…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/i-think-that-s-the-job-of-each-of-us-to-show-our-best-toys-and-our/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/we-ve-painted-ourselves-into-a-corner-where-the-only-choice-is-real/)

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## More by Terence McKenna

> [History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/history-was-an-incredibly-damaging-experience-and-now-it-s-over-in-a/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/we-are-somehow-the-children-of-the-planet-we-are-somehow-its-finest/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/the-history-of-man-that-you-don-t-know-is-what-your-unconscious-is/)

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> [We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/what-is-happening-here-is-we-are-living-past-the-age-by-the-millions/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/what-history-is-essentially-is-a-careening-out-of-control-effort-to/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/and-what-is-the-primary-datum-it-s-the-felt-presence-of-immediate/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/our-culture-difinitely-takes-an-egocentric-dominator-view-the-fear-of/)

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> [Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/every-step-into-freedom-contains-within-it-the-potential-for-greater/)

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> [This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/this-is-the-message-of-your-life-and-my-life-it-s-that-nothing-lasts/)

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> [I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/i-often-like-to-think-that-our-map-of-the-world-is-wrong-that-where/)

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> [Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/knowledge-or-verbal-facility-is-no-proof-that-you-know-what-you-re/)

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> [No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/no-culture-on-earth-is-as-heavily-narcotized-as-the-industrial-west/)

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> [Man was not put on this planet to toil in the mud. Or the god who put us on this planet to toil in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/man-was-not-put-on-this-planet-to-toil-in-the-mud-or-the-god-who-put/)

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> [If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new community that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/if-you-take-psychedelics-and-the-internet-and-music-and-put-all-of/)

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