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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.
Terence McKenna
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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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What the psychedelic experience really is, is opening the doorway into a lost continent of the human mind, a continent that we have almost lost all connection to, and the nature of this lost world of the human mind is that it is a Gaian entelechy.
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I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.
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The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.
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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.
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You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.
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The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.
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Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.
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Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
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The whole of the Amazonian narcotic complex, as it's called in the old literature, is based on activation of DMT by one strategy or another.
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Because I believe psychedelics are a kind of higher dimensional sectioning of reality, I think they give the kind of stereoscopic vision necessary to hold the entire hologram of what's happening in your mind. The old paradigm is gone.
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The shaman has access to a superhuman dimension and a superhuman condition, and by being able to do that he affirms the potential for transcendence in all people. He is an exemplar, if you will.
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The testimony of DMT, for me, is that there is a nearby dimension, teeming with intelligences, that from one of the more conservative perspectives seems like an ecology of souls.
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Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.
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Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it's not necessarily some kind of 'Be Here Now' feel-good thing because it doesn't always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It's primary.
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It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.
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Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.
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As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.
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You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.
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