Terence McKenna Quote Explained: History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.

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You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.

Psychedelic philosopher and ethnobotanist

· USA

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So when you look at the eschaton what you see, strangely enough, is your own face.

- Terence McKenna

Psychedelic philosopher and ethnobotanist

· USA

Enough
Faces

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Let’s not underrate cannabis, for cryin’ out loud. Cannabis should be the glue of the community.

- Terence McKenna

Psychedelic philosopher and ethnobotanist

· USA

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You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.

- Terence McKenna

Psychedelic philosopher and ethnobotanist

· USA

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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.

- Terence McKenna

Psychedelic philosopher and ethnobotanist

· USA

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Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.

- Terence McKenna

Psychedelic philosopher and ethnobotanist

· USA

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The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.

- Terence McKenna

Psychedelic philosopher and ethnobotanist

· USA

Tools

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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.

- Terence McKenna

Psychedelic philosopher and ethnobotanist

· USA

Strive

History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it’s over . . . in a sense.

History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it’s over . . . in a sense.

You could almost describe psychedelics as enzymes for the activity of the imagination.

So when you look at the eschaton what you see, strangely enough, is your own face.

Let’s not underrate cannabis, for cryin’ out loud. Cannabis should be the glue of the community.

You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.

Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.

Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.

The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.

We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.

I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain

Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain

To get what you want, you have to deserve what you want. Explain

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain

Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain

The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain

It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it’s over . . . in a sense.

History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it’s over . . . in a sense.

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