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You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.

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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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I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky.
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It's as important to be well informed in this area, if you're going to do it, as it is to be well informed about procedures in skin diving and that sort of thing if you're going to do that.
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We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being dropped into our laps for us to create human-machine interfacing, control of genetic material, redefinition of social reality, re engineering of languages, revisioning of the planetary ecology, all these things fall upon us.
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Safety is really a concern of mine, and what I've been telling people recently is that until there's animal and human data on a drug it should probably be looked at very carefully.
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The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.
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Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.
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All time is is how much change you can pack into a second.
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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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Cyberspace is the human transition into a mathematical super space where we as a collectivity become optionally a single point of view.
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I would argue that it's almost better to do heroin than to watch TV. At least when you're doing heroin you're responsible for your own reveries and thought processes. When you're mainlining TV what is it but endless messages to fetishize products?
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The psychedelic experience is the beginning of the spiritual path. That's why it's not important that yogas' claim that they can deliver you the psychedelic experience, because it begins with the psychedelic experience, and then you go from there.
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So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.
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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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I'm not an advocate of drugs. I'm an advocate of psychedelics.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved.
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The thing is that it is incredibly frustrating to anyone who would control it, because you can't predict the impact of any technology before you put it in place.
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Information is just simply bootstrapping itself to higher and higher levels of self-reflection and self-coordination using whatever means are necessary.
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