"If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly……" — Terence McKenna
"If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization."
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202 Quotes by Terence McKenna
Terence McKenna has 202 quotes on this site.
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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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What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.…
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The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push…
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Civilization... wrecks the planet from seafloor to stratosphere.
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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that…
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Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America.…
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Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
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Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
— Ambrose Bierce
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In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by…
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