"Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This……" — Terence McKenna
"Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control."
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202 Quotes by Terence McKenna
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We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the…
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Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no…
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Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.
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There is an area of the mind that could be called unsane, beyond sanity, and yet not insane. Think of…
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We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.
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Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.
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I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind…
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LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We…
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to…
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History is rooted in the future
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You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.
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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to…
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What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind…
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That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating.…
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