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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

Terence McKenna

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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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I think institutions will inevitably substitute a rite or a ritual for the authentic, for the real McCoy, because then priests can control the pipeline to god, and the parishioner can approach with offerings. But if everybody can have a pipeline to deity, why then the whole priest scam is put out of business.
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What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.
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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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Skywalker is a direct translation of the word shaman out of the Tungusic, which is where Siberian shamanism comes from. So these heroes that are being instilled in the heart of the culture are shamanic heroes. They control a force which is bigger than everybody and holds the galaxy together.
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As I see it, Being, the Cosmos, whatever you want to call it, is a struggle between two implacable forces: Novelty on the one side and habit on the other side.
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So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.
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An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.
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You will ride the Tao toward the concrescence and will be able to live in the light of its anticipation.
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The real truth is splintered and spread throughout time.
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We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.
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The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.
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What you call man is time.
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Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.
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It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.
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Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
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Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art.
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History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.
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I discovered early in life a stunning truth that's made my life very complicated in its wake, but that I still think is true, and it's that people are very easy to love.
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This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level.
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The movement of a single atom from one known position to another known position changes an experience from nothing to overwhelming. This means that mind and matter at the quantum mechanical level are all spun together.
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