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Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.
Terence McKenna
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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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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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In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.
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The western mind, because of it's unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics.
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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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People have a right to get stoned. They have a right to think and explore their own minds. This is as intimate a part of their being as their sexuality. Any culture which mitigates that is clearly afraid of a full and fair and open dialogue about what reality is and what real human values ought to be.
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What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.
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Memory training is great psychedelic training.
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An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.
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