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Terence McKenna

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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.


— Terence McKenna


#dying #life #death

We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.


— Terence McKenna


#life #life

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.


— Terence McKenna


#intuition

Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.


— Terence McKenna


#ideology #ideology

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.


— Terence McKenna


#rationality #reality #science #ufos #unreality

The race isn't to the swift, it's to the thoughtful.


— Terence McKenna


#life

The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.


— Terence McKenna


#life #imagination

It’s pretty simple, the ethical life. It’s just demanding.


— Terence McKenna


#life #life

We live in condensations of our imagination


— Terence McKenna


#imagination

Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.


— Terence McKenna


#religion #religion






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When he later discovered that the end of the 13th baktun in the Maya Calendar had been correlated by Western Maya scholars with December 21 not far from his own hypothesized end date he decided that the Maya were more likely to be right on this subject and he adopted their end date. All these factors according to McKenna were the most important factors that promoted evolution towards the Homo sapiens species. He was introduced to geology through his uncle and developed a hobby of solitary fossil hunting in the arroyos near his home.

He was noted for his knowledge and the ability to articulate his knowledge of the use of psychedelics metaphysics plant-based entheogens and subjects ranging from shamanism language historical and civilizational timelines the theoretical origins of human consciousness and his concept of novelty theory. Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16 1946 – April 3 2000) was an American ethnobotanist philosopher psychonaut researcher teacher lecturer and writer.

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