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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. -Terence McKenna
Language
Become
Replicating
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History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness. -Terence McKenna
Production
Appeared
Across
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That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with. -Terence McKenna
God
About
Dealing
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There are times when everything seems to go right, and times when everything seems to go wrong. -Terence McKenna
Times
Seems
Wrong
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Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind. -Terence McKenna
Really
Global
Sounding
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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. -Terence McKenna
Victims
Flames
Ourselves
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Nature conserves, prefers novelty. -Terence McKenna
Conserves
Novelty
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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. -Terence McKenna
Feet
Acre
Built
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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. -Terence McKenna
Carry
Time
Discover
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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. -Terence McKenna
Haunt
Unconscious
Forever
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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. -Terence McKenna
Invented
Around
Problem
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The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere. -Terence McKenna
Golden
Everywhere
Imagination
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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
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Dream
Teacher
Commitment
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You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
― Terence McKenna
Inspirational
Life
Light
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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
― Terence McKenna
Reality
Hallucinations
Facts
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The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.
― Terence McKenna
World
Tiny
Fractions
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Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough to realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
― Terence McKenna
Years
Games
People
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The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
― Terence McKenna
Beautiful
Mind
Duty
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Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
― Terence McKenna
Government
Dmt
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Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.
― Terence McKenna
Ego
Psychedelic
Absence
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