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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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It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know... You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You'll have that!
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The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.
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What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.
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Reality itself is not static. This is one of the things that the psychedelic is trying to put across, that the reality we're embedded in is itself some kind of an organism and is evolving toward a conclusion.
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We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us.
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I don't think that mass drug taking is a good idea. But I think that we must have a deputized minority, a shamanic professional class if you will, whose job is to bring ideas out of the deep black water and show them off to the rest of us and perform for our culture some of the cultural functions that shaman perform in pre-literate cultures.
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The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.
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We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.
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We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place.
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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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The race isn't to the swift, it's to the thoughtful.
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But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.
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Nothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement. So it's very important to actually listen to your own intuition rather than driving through it.
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It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.
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Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.
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Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that nature builds on previously established levels of complexity.
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It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.
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Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made.
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