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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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Terence Kemp McKenna
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Psychedelic experiences and dreams are chemical cousins they are only different in degree.
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Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago there was no other form of religion on this planet. That was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred.
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The world could be anything, you know, It could be a solid state matrix of some sort. It could be an illusion. It could be a dream. I mean it really could be a dream.
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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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The psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it.
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To me, the most amazing the most amazing transformation in my lifetime is not the revolution of the Sixties but the counter revolution of the Seventies, where they managed to put the cuckoo clock back together again
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It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue, and Hollywood, and what have you.
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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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I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.
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The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.
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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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Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole.
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LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.
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Language betrays, in order to mean.
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I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky.
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I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me happy.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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Actually, the highest form of human organization is not realized in the democratic individual. It is realized in a dimension none of us have ever penetrated, which is the mind of the species, which is actually the hand at the tiller of history. . . . It is an organized entelechy of some sort, and human history is its signature on the primates.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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The intellectual tension that seems to work its way through this society almost like fat through meat is the tension between scientific reductionism and the deeply felt intuition of most people that there is a spiritual dimension, or a hidden dimension, or a transcendental dimension.
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