Every click of the cosmic clock Terence McKenna More Quotes by Terence McKenna More Quotes From Terence McKenna If you go to Paris you know more about reality than people who don't. If you smoke DMT you know more about reality than people who don't. Terence McKenna dmt paris reality So the idea is to triangulate a sufficiently large number of data points in your set of experience that you can make a model of the world that is not imprisoning. That's why, second to psychedelics, I think travel is the most boundary-dissolving, educational enterprise that you can get mixed up in. Terence McKenna data educational thinking In shamanism and certain yogas, Taoist yoga, claim very clearly that the purpose is to familiarize yourself with this after-death body, in life, and then the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche. You will recognize what is happening. You will know what to do. And you will make the clean break. Terence McKenna yoga confusion dying I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world. Terence McKenna past years thinking The Logos is a voice heard, in the head. And the Logos was the hand on the rudder of human civilization for centuries, up until, in fact, the collapse of the ancient mystery religions and the ascendancy of Christianity to the status of a world religion. Terence McKenna world-religions voice hands Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness. . . . Would that we could send robots who could film these psychedelic realities. . . . The presence of so much beauty is an argument to me that truth cannot be far away. Terence McKenna robots ordinary reality The message coming back at all of us is: live without closure. Terence McKenna closure coming-back messages Tribalism is a social form which can exist at any level of technology. It's a complete illusion to associate it with low levels of technology. It is probably, in fact, a form of social organization second only to the family in its ability to endure. Terence McKenna levels technology organization What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all. Terence McKenna happenings age past This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in a voice which causes facts to be beheld by groups of people in a way that has been purged from profane language, for us relegated to poetry and that sort of thing. Terence McKenna magic voice people 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 don't know is what your personal unconscious is made out of. Terence McKenna unconscious made men I think transcending our cultures is going to be extraordinarily necessary for our survival. I don't think we can carry our cultures through the keyhole of the stretch of the next millennium Terence McKenna survival culture thinking A great turning point is in the offing. The world is changing. It's changed before, but not for a long time in our lives, not since before our lives. But now it's changing, and there are many many possibilities. Terence McKenna possibility long world Our task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate. Terence McKenna replicate memes tasks There is not the Newtonian universe deployed throughout the parsecs and kiliocosms of physical space and the interior mental universe. They are the same thing. Terence McKenna interiors universe space Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding The strangeness seems to be accelerating. Terence McKenna block enough long And the psychedelics, I believe, are the key to moving from wearing culture like cloths to recognizing that culture is this intensifying reflection of an aspect of the self and integrating it into the self. Terence McKenna reflection believe moving The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self. Terence McKenna molecules unique self All of you who have been through high dose psychedelic experiences know that it's very hard to carry stupid baggage through that keyhole. In fact you're lucky if you just get your soul and yourselves through and intact. Terence McKenna baggage soul stupid There will be difficult moments in a five-gram trip, but on the other hand certain questions will be solved forever for you, because you will validate the existence of this dimension. You will see what your relationship to it is. Terence McKenna dimensions forever hands
