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The race isn't to the swift, it's to the thoughtful.

Terence McKenna

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
Ethnobotanist
Philosopher
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Terence Kemp McKenna
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I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.
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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 way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.
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Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean.
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Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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Even a billion people is too much. There's no way back to the simplicity we once knew, but there may be a way forward to the simplicity that we once knew.
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The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.
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Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it's not necessarily some kind of 'Be Here Now' feel-good thing because it doesn't always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It's primary.
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Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.
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If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.
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