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Banez
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2 McKenna Quotes i felt like sharing
#5598445 - 05/06/06 06:11 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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well i was just reading "true hullucinations" and thought i would share a couple great quotes.. its a great read btw..
"The mushroom is a transdimensional doorway which sly fairies have left slightly ajar for anyone to enter who can find the key and who wishes to use this power- the power of vision- to explore this peculiar and naturally occuring psychoactive complex"
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".. it seemed to open doorways into places i assumed would always be closed to me becuase of my insistance on analysis and realism"
Just 2 quotes i felt like sharing.. this has been one of the best novels i have read in a long time!!
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Re: 2 McKenna Quotes i felt like sharing [Re: Banez]
#5598535 - 05/06/06 06:40 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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"It takes courage to take psychedelics-real courage. Your stomach clenches, your palms grow damp, because you realize this is real -this is going to work. Not in twelves years, not in twenty years, but in an hour! " - Terence McKenna
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Re: 2 McKenna Quotes i felt like sharing [Re: Animals]
#5598593 - 05/06/06 07:02 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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"If you truly run the edges...the cosmic giggle becomes your friend."
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Re: 2 McKenna Quotes i felt like sharing [Re: Noviseer]
#5598604 - 05/06/06 07:04 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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"self-transforming machine elves LOL!" - Terence McKenna
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Re: 2 McKenna Quotes i felt like sharing [Re: Animals]
#5599314 - 05/06/06 10:52 PM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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"We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort. "
"A woman on the upper east side of New York or in Malibu... has a child. That child will have between eight hundred and a thousand times more negative impact on the environment of the Earth than a child born to a woman in Bangledesh. Where do we preach birth control? Bangledesh. "
"“The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it's only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse. If you go to Bosnia or Somalia or Peru or much of the third-world then it appears that the apocalypse has already arrived.”"
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McKennaDMT said: "We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we have then fallen victim to priestcraft of every conceivable sort. "
"“The apocalypse is not something which is coming. The apocalypse has arrived in major portions of the planet and it's only because we live within a bubble of incredible privilege and social insulation that we still have the luxury of anticipating the apocalypse. If you go to Bosnia or Somalia or Peru or much of the third-world then it appears that the apocalypse has already arrived.”"
i disagree to those 2 somewhat. although i do agree 3rd world countries are shitty compared to the us; theyre still faced with the same problems we are in some ways. Such as staying alive, some just do better than others. We may have technology, but during the stone age to neolithic age is when civilization began to really. that was like 10,000 years ago. the first advanced cities could have just as easily been built anywhere else there were people, how they manage to maintain theyre constant growth is their responsibility - regaurdless of natural disasters, invaders, etc. life is a rat race, were doing better. an apocalypse is more a divine or highly signifigant rendering - and there is nothing highly signifigant about something being shitty.
i think if the apocalypse came, everyone would know its the apoalypse. the apocalypse is definatley something that would have to be coming. terrance mckenna is really just a pysched out philosopher who looks on the way adverse of things. and the adverse of things in the world right now is the way to look at where we stand usually when it comes to understanding morality.
but to say we've all fallen victim to priestcraft is a very negative and ignorant form of opinion, at one time yes i would agree though. but if that were true that priestcraft is wrong, look at how many people sin accordingly to the bibles standards. and theres nothing wrong with having religious beliefs, religion preaches only good things. its all a question of how you interperet what you read, but ultimatley the message behind it all is peace, morality, and a clean life style.
none of that is bad, how ever telling people theyve fallen victim to every conceivable act of priestcraft is wrong. there are some good religious figures who could use religion to do good in the world, and if anyone can tell me otherwise, that influencing people from the posotive aspect of religion is wrong - id like to hear your point of view. terrance mckenna should lay off the mushrooms, he really sees the world as completley 100% fucked up, when in reality its more like 2/3 because of all the bad influence from people who use authority wrongly and our own selfish acts.
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Re: 2 McKenna Quotes i felt like sharing [Re: KidgardFromSRQ]
#5600128 - 05/07/06 04:08 AM (17 years, 9 months ago) |
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but to say we've all fallen victim to priestcraft is a very negative and ignorant form of opinion, at one time yes i would agree though. but if that were true that priestcraft is wrong, look at how many people sin accordingly to the bibles standards. and theres nothing wrong with having religious beliefs, religion preaches only good things. its all a question of how you interperet what you read, but ultimatley the message behind it all is peace, morality, and a clean life style.
none of that is bad, how ever telling people theyve fallen victim to every conceivable act of priestcraft is wrong. there are some good religious figures who could use religion to do good in the world, and if anyone can tell me otherwise, that influencing people from the posotive aspect of religion is wrong - id like to hear your point of view.
I think religion has done more harm then good. Do you really need someone in a robe and collar to tell you that you should not steal, or murder, or betray your spouse? Do you need a book to tell you to take care of the sick, clothe the naked, or feed the hungry? When religion codifies morality most religions end up sounding alike (C.S. Lewis compared Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Paganism and showed the common ground among them as far as morality, in an addendum to The Abolition of Man).
Religion is damaging when it justifies an "us against them" mentality, religion of course excels in that. Thats why hijackers fly planes into buildings. Thats why so many have died in Northern Ireland, in Yugoslavia, in Kashmir, and so on. Every good thing done in the name of religion could be done for its own sake without religious context. I think religion is at best unnecessary and at worst an excuse to harm others in the name of a belief (or fairy tale). If a person feels the need for religious beliefs fine, just don't kill me if I don't share the same view.
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Re: 2 McKenna Quotes i felt like sharing [Re: AislingGheal]
#5917679 - 07/31/06 03:45 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Some of my opinions on McKenna's attitude toward "The Old Religion" can be found on my thread "Terrence McKenna and the Civilisation Prejudice" (on this forum).
regards Silverwolf
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Edited by Silverwolf (07/31/06 03:46 AM)
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