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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
Terence McKenna
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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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Terence Kemp McKenna
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The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.
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The only frontier now left to exploit is not a frontier in space but a frontier in time. We steal the future from our children by plunging massively deeper and deeper into debt.
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The real truth is splintered and spread throughout time.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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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’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there
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The world could be anything, you know, It could be a solid state matrix of some sort. It could be an illusion. It could be a dream. I mean it really could be a dream.
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Let's not underrate cannabis, for cryin' out loud. Cannabis should be the glue of the community.
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The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.
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By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.
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In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed [through use of psychedelics] as simply quaint cultural artifacts, painted masks and rattles assembled by people of good intent but clearly not great grasp of the situation.
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When we really understand time travel we may find out it's as common as dirt and has been going on all around us is all kinds of physical processes.
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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
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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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It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know... You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You'll have that!
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