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The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.

Terence McKenna

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.
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Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.
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Look at the reputation they gave him. [Giordano] Bruno without the pyre is a whiskey priest laying waste to the maids of Umbria.
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The sensory ratios that are being reinforced by the new electronic technology are like the sensory ratios that were in place fifteen thousand years ago. . . . Print imposes a condition on human mind which is now lifting.
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I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.
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We can't sell short the spiritual power of cannabis, especially when eaten.
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There is a sort of fair play, and if you can get in touch with that in your life, if you can have that perception, the world will begin to work for you, it will begin to move toward you... Nature loves courage, and it shows you that loves courage because it will remove obstacles.
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A history-stopping archetype is being released into the skies of this planet, and if we are not careful it will halt all intellectual inquiry in the same way that the Christos archetype halted intellectual inquiry in the Hellenistic Age.
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Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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Marcel Eliade took the position that hallucinogenic shamanism was decadent, and Gordon Wasson, very rightly I believe, contravened this view and held that actually it was very probably the presence of the hallucinogenic drug experience in the life of early man that lay the very basis for the idea of the spirit.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.
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I think that's the job of each of us - to show our best toys and our best tricks that lift us and our friends to higher and higher levels. There is no end to this bootstrapping process. The future of the human mind and body and the future of humans together is endlessly bright.
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And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.
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The intellectual tension that seems to work its way through this society almost like fat through meat is the tension between scientific reductionism and the deeply felt intuition of most people that there is a spiritual dimension, or a hidden dimension, or a transcendental dimension.
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Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.
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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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The psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it.
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...situations evolve as matter responds to the conditioning of time and space...If you know what is contained in time from its beginning to its end you are somehow no longer in time. Even though you still have a body and still eat and do what you do, you have discovered something that liberated you into a satisfying all-at-oneness.
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