Ideas Quotes by Terence McKenna

What foods are, essentially, are idea-neutral drugs.

— Terence McKenna

Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas

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I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.

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I finally realized that this 'place' that I kept bursting into [on a psychedelic experience] was somebody's idea of a playpen.

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I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from…

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Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified,…

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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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Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one…

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Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted…

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We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to…

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The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are…

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So what needs to be done is to spread the idea that anxiety is inappropriate. It's sort of like we who are…

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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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No one yet understands the mysterious intelligence within plants or the implications of the idea that nature communicates in a basic chemical…

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What I'm talking about is actually is the Mystery of Being as existential fact. That there is something that haunts this world…

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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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You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new…

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Marcel Eliade took the position that hallucinogenic shamanism was decadent, and Gordon Wasson, very rightly I believe, contravened this view and held…

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I don't think that mass drug taking is a good idea. But I think that we must have a deputized minority, a…

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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…

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Certainly neo-Platonism, Plotinus and Porphyry and that school are psychedelic philosophers. Their idea of an ascending hierarchy of more and more rarefied…

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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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Cultivate an ongoing stream of self-description, telling yourself what is happening. Get used to the idea that mind can penetrate the immediate…

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At the interface of the say-able and the unsay-able is the novel, the new, the never before seen, said or done. And…

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So the idea is to triangulate a sufficiently large number of data points in your set of experience that you can make…

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It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . .…

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Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human…

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I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are…

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On these matters of specific fact, like is the mushroom an extraterrestrial and that sort of thing, I haven't the faintest idea.…

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