My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness. Terence McKenna More Quotes by Terence McKenna More Quotes From Terence McKenna I think our intelligence is a source of toxicity to nature and discomfort to ourselves unless our values are based on planetary values, are linked to the values of the rest of nature. Intelligence is not a license to trample. The proper role of intelligence in a planetary ecology is that of gardener, caregiver and maintainer of balance. Terence McKenna balancerolesthinking The Germans take quite a knock for the holocaust, but the Catholic church manages to push more people into death, disease, and degradation every year than the holocaust managed in its entire show. And it's thought rather crass to even mention the fact. It seems to me that as long as these Catholic bishops can show their face in public that we are in complicity with mass murder. Terence McKenna longpeopleyears It is now very clear that techniques of machine-human interfacing, pharmacology of the synthetic variety, all kinds of manipulative techniques, all kinds of data storage, imaging and retrieval techniques - all of this is coalescing toward the potential of a truly demonic or angelic kind of self-imaging of our culture... And the people who are on the demonic side are fully aware of this and hurrying full-tilt forward with their plans to capture everyone as a 100% believing consumer inside some kind of a beige furnished fascism that won't even raise a ripple. Terence McKenna dataselfbelieve It's possible to see the whole human growth movement of the 1970s as a wish to continue the inward quest without having to put yourself on the line in the way you had to when you took 250 gamma of LSD. And I think all these other methods are efficacious, but I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off. Terence McKenna growthpeoplethinking The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature. Terence McKenna immenseinspectiontools I sort of see [cannabis] as the pilot light of Gian consciousness. Terence McKenna pilotsconsciousnesslight [DMT] raises all the questions in a hurry. It's so intense and so oriented toward the other and the visual and the hallucinogenic that it isn't really like a drug. It's more like an event that you ran into. You just came around a corner and there was the unspeakable. Terence McKenna dmteventsdrug Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. Terence McKenna natureinspirationallife The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor. Terence McKenna rumorfeltknows Actually, the highest form of human organization is not realized in the democratic individual. It is realized in a dimension none of us have ever penetrated, which is the mind of the species, which is actually the hand at the tiller of history. . . . It is an organized entelechy of some sort, and human history is its signature on the primates. Terence McKenna organizationmindhands I think the entire message of the psychedelic experience, which is basically the sine qua non of the rebirth of alchemical understanding, the very basis of that understanding is that nature seeks to communicate. Terence McKenna understandingmessagesthinking Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Terence McKenna inspirationallifeart I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination. Terence McKenna imaginationpeoplethinking The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery. Terence McKenna mysteryproblemworld Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there. Terence McKenna compoundspsychedelicboundaries The Earth itself is stepping in to aid in the agenda of cultural transformation. There are too many doorways in nature that lead to heaven, there are too many paths to the mystery for any institution or social policy to be able to thwart the intent of the human species to evolve. Terence McKenna agendasearthheaven Television, introduced at the close of World War II, has become a form of electronic heroin, and it isn't even your trip. They don't even let you go on your own trip, you get a trip designed by Madison Avenue. Terence McKenna goes-onwartelevision The real truth is splintered and spread throughout time. Terence McKenna truth-isspreadreal Part of what the psychedelic point of view represents is living a certain portion of your life without answers. Just accepting that certain dilemmas will never resolve themselves into some kind of a complete answer. That's why psychedelics are so different from any system being sold, from one of the great elder systems like Christianity, to the latest cult out of Los Angeles. Terence McKenna differentviewsanswers Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human situation, new ideas are coming to the fore. Psilocybin is a selective filter for this. The wish to go to space is a selective filter for this. Just the wish to know your own mind is a selective filter for this. Terence McKenna spacemindideas
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