Terence McKenna Quotes

• This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.

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• What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.

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• Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.

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

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• The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. If artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.

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• There are times when everything seems to go right, and times when everything seems to go wrong.

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• What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.

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• Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.

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• That’s what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you’re dealing with.

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• The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.

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• The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be dealt with.

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• Nature conserves, prefers novelty.

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• In fact, I think when we carry out a complete analysis of time, I think what we’re going to discover is that like matter, time is composed of elemental, discrete types.

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• I live up at about the 2000 feet level on a five acre piece of forest that I built a small house on.

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• We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.

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• Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.

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Terence McKenna (16)

Birth:	16th November, 1946
Death:	3rd April, 2000
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Botanist, Lecturer, Philosopher, Researcher, Teacher, Writer

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