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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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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
Ethnobotanist
Philosopher
Writer
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Terence Kemp McKenna
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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's a relationship like to a crusty Zen master, or something like that. And it is really like another entity because you cannot predict the answers.
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So I submit to you that what we represent is a Fifth Column, a Fifth Column that represents the best aspirations that human community is capable of, a Fifth Column that is willing to look at the structure of the psyche in contrast to the mess of society, and willing to dream.
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It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.
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Impressionism is simply twenty minutes into LSD.
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Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.
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DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen there is. If it gets stronger than that I don't want to know about it.
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I regard these people who are peddling angst and peddling pessimism and all that stuff as so 'two minutes ago'.
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We are living in a state of constant scientific revolution. There is not a single area that you can name that is now seen as it was seen a hundred years ago. Nothing is left of the world view of one hundred years ago.
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Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.
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In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.
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We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.
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That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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For unknown reasons, there is a tremendous concentration of psychoactive plants on the South American continent. The South American continent has more known hallucinogens than the rest of the planet combined.
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Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?
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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 psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it.
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'Drugs' and psychedelics are not two members of a family, they are antithetically opposed to each other. The pro-psychedelic position is an anti-drug position.
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Well, you could almost say, I suppose, that the scientist seeks what is similar between any two days, or bluebirds, or glaciers. And the poet seeks what is different. The artist seeks to celebrate the unique.
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