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Terence McKenna: top 300 quotes
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Death (n.) is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole.
History (n.) is rooted in the future
History (n.) is essentially a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.
History (n.) is a series of approximations of the final singularity.
History (n.) is the 15,000-20,000 year story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.
History (n.) is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified.
History (n.) is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.
History (n.) is the siren song of the soul.
History (n.) is anomalous, and there is no way to get used to it.
History (n.) is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years and spread across the planet very quickly.
History (n.) is a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night.
Language (n.) betrays, in order to mean.
Language (n.) , on earth, has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.
Language (n.) is the limit condition of our evolution. We cannot evolve faster than our language. The edge of being is the edge of meaning, and somehow we have to push the edge of meaning. We have to extend it.
Language (n.) springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.
Language (n.) is a kind of tuneless singing which was probably entertainment long before it was meaning.
Language (n.) is the flashlight that shows the path for an always-more-slowly evolving culture.
Language's (n.) development has, in a way, occluded the psyche.
Language's (n.) evolution is no great mystery. You simply cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other.
The Imagination (n.) is the golden pathway to everywhere.
Imagination (n.) is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
The Imagination (n.) is a dimension of nonlocal information
The Imagination (n.) is the goal of history.
Being (n.) imposes some kind of obligation to find out what's going on.
Being (n.) is a struggle between two implacable forces: Novelty on the one side and habit on the other side.
The Animal (n.) is something invented by plants to move seeds around.
Novelty (n.) is necessarily a situation where all boundaries are dissolved.
Ambiguity (n.) is in our nature. People are concrescences of ambiguity.
Shamanism (n.) is about edge-walking on an ontological transformation of what it means to be human.
Shamanism (n.) is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.
Shamanism (n.) is a call to authenticity, to the cultural hardware that we are propelled toward rather than the bad software of cultural conditioning which is buggy and constantly re-written.
Shamanism (n.) is nothing but philosophy with a hands-on attitude; philosophy based on the acquisition of extreme experience.
Shamanism (n.) is about shape shifting; shamanism is about doing phenomenology with a tool kit that works.
Shamanism (n.) is not authentic without hallucinogens.
Shamanism (n.) is a world-wide tradition which, since Paleolithic-times, has said that you must make your own experience the center piece of any model of the world that you build.
Shamanism (n.) is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.
Shamanism (n.) is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. It is how religion was practiced for its first million years.
Shamanism (n.) is tasked to help familiarize yourself with our after-death body in life so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche, and you will make the clean break.
Inwardness (n.) is the characteristic feature of the vegetable approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while plants hold fast.