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If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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The central figure in the archaic revival is the shaman.
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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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We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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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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A history-stopping archetype is being released into the skies of this planet, and if we are not careful it will halt all intellectual inquiry in the same way that the Christos archetype halted intellectual inquiry in the Hellenistic Age.
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Psychedelics can carry you farther and faster than most people care to go. Once you get to psychedelics, it's no longer a matter of seeking the answer, you have found the answer. Now the issue changes dramatically, you must face the answer.
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Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
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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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Well, certainly the Voynich Manuscript is the 'limit text' of Western occultism. No one can read it. It is truly an occult book.
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We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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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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We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.
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Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved.
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This is the key. If you get into deep water with these substances, this is true of psilocybin as well, you don't want to clench, you don't want to assume the fetal position and stop breathing. You want to sit up straight and breathe, and sing, and sing it back, and it will step back. You can take control of your situation ... most of the time.
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Psychedelic experiences and dreams are chemical cousins they are only different in degree.
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Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.
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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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