At one point in this video, he has a great bit that I've heard him ask in other variations, questioning our ability as simians to truly comprehend the reality we live in.
The quote comes at 2:27:10 in the video:
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"Ultimately what you're thrown back on is that you are a monkey!
It's nothing to be ashamed of, but on the other hand, it's nothing to write out of the equation either... You're a monkey, for God's sake, and yet you're asking to understand the nature of reality! What would you think of a squirrel that ran around with that as a goal?"
- Terence McKenna
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This is an example of Terence's great wit & insight that allowed him to expand the minds of so many people during his life, and even more after his death.
It echoes another quote of his, that I posted in one of the very early entries in this blog, waaay back in 2005:
The Monkey Buddha Archives:
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"For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception."
- Terence McKenna
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Also highly relevant- the totally crazy & awesome animation based on McKenna's ideas, Stoned Ape Theory:
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