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Human history is a Gaian dream.

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
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Philosopher
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Terence Kemp McKenna
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Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.
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The message coming back at all of us is: live without closure.
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In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the reduction centuries of modern science. We've re-understood that the world is one thing, and it's a living thing. It's a thing with an intent and a spirit within it, and this is the key concept.
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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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Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That's where culture gets real ugly. It is when you rub up against its ideologies.
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I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism.
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We are an intelligent species caught in an historical process. No generation which proceeded us knew what was going on, and there is no reason to assume that we know what's going on or that the generation which follows us will know what's going on. And what kind of trip is it anyway to insist on knowing what's going on?
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What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.
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