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Terence McKenna war ein US-amerikanischer Sprachwissenschaftler, Autor, Biologe, Bewusstseinsforscher und Wegbereiter der Ethnopharmakologie. Einer der Schwerpunkte seiner Forschungsarbeit war die Erforschung schamanischer Techniken. Er veröffentlichte etliche Bücher vor allem über Bewusstseinserweiterung, verschiedene pflanzliche Drogen sowie psychoaktive Pilze, insbesondere über die Pilze Amanita muscaria , Psilocybe cubensis und andere Psilocybe. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. November 1946 – 3. April 2000  •  Andere Namen ترنس مک‌کنا, Terenss Makkena
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“Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.”

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Shamanism and the Archaic Revival http://www.matrixmasters.net/blogs/?p=1242

“I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there”

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“The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.”

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“We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place.”

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Quelle: Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge

“Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien… What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.”

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“The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.”

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Quelle: The Invisible Landscape: Mind, Hallucinogens & the I Ching

“Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.”

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Quelle: Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge

“It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.”

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“The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.”

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“My voice speaking is a monkey's mouth making little mouth noises that are carrying agree-upon meaning, and it is meaning that matters. Without the meaning one has only little mouth noises”

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Quelle: The Archaic Revival

“Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.”

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Variante: Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.

“Nothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement. So it's very important to actually listen to your own intuition rather than driving through it.”

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“A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.”

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“What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.”

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“What's happening is that 8% of the world's people use 35% of the world's petroleum, and are ready to blow everybody off the map to keep it that way. This is nothing more than a manifestation of junkie psychology on a mass scale. We're addicted, they got it, we're happy to pay for it, but if they won't sell it we'll break into their house and take it, because by god it will go into our right arm. that's the plan.”

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History Ends in Green (1983)

“You need an Ego, if you didn't have an ego you wouldn't know who's mouth to put food in, when eating in a restaurant.”

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History Ends in Green (1983)

“History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified.”

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Psychedelic Society (1984)

“We are being sucked into the body of eternity.”

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Terrence McKenna's "2012 Eternity" video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkSxKGkNs6M

“A lot of people pass through the thinking I'm a guru and take enough trips to understand that no, I was just a witness. I was just a witness.”

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Tripzine.com interview with McKenna http://www.tripzine.com/listing.php?smlid=129

“We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in all systems.”

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Psychedelic Society (1984)

“We are caged by our cultural programming. Culture is a mass hallucination, and when you step outside the mass hallucination you see it for what it's worth.”

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Eros and the Eschaton http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_WW9z0_Eu0& lecture (1994)

“We have numerous, extremely naïve assumptions built into our thinking, and our most venerable explanatory engines, such as science, happen also to be our oldest explanatory engines, and therefore they have built into them the most naïve and unexamined assumptions.”

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Psychedelic Society (1984)

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