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Nature Quotes by Terence McKenna

40 Nature quotes by Terence McKenna

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Terence McKenna warns that the industrial West is heavily drugged by its own habits, making us blind to harmful choices. He says that seeing nature as an elegant economy could guide us toward healthier values, and that psychedelic insight might help us understand our true place on the planet.

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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.

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Nature conserves, prefers novelty.

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The real nature of our predicament is completely opaque to us.

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Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.

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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.

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As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with…

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The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.

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I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.

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This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level.

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The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature.

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Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.

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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.

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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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And I don't mean this metaphorically. I want to be taken seriously as proposing that the ennui of modernity is the consequence…

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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream…

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The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed…

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I think of going to the grave without having a psychedelic experience like going to the grave without ever having sex. It…

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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…

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The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know…

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Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble…

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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. Shamanism has always known…

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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream…

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“From one point of view the Transcendent Other is nature correctly perceived to be alive and intelligent. From another it is the…

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Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort, and ignore. That is that…

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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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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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The Earth itself is stepping in to aid in the agenda of cultural transformation. There are too many doorways in nature 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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“Our estrangement from nature and the unconscious became entrenched roughly two thousand years ago, during the shift from the Age of the…

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Why does mathematics describe nature. That's a deeper question than most.

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Science is the exploration of the experience of nature without psychedelics. And I propose, therefore, to expand that enterprise and say that…

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This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say…

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We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to…

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I think the entire message of the psychedelic experience, which is basically the sine qua non of the rebirth of alchemical understanding,…

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Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a…

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What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that…

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To my mind this makes psychedelics central to any political reconstruction, because these are the only force in nature that actually dissolve…

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I think our intelligence is a source of toxicity to nature and discomfort to ourselves unless our values are based on planetary…

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What is needed is a spirit of boundary dissolution, between individuals, between classes, sexual orientations, rich and poor, man and woman, intellectual…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.

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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.…

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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…

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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.

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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…

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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…

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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…

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