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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.
Terence McKenna
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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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We're not going to save the monkey unless we can shed the monkey. And the greatest impetus, the greatest inspiration to the expression of our higher selves comes in the confrontation with psyche that occurs in the psychedelic experience.
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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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Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.
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The only real experience that counts, is your own.
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Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.
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My hope is that I may bear witness to the fact that there is a great mystery calling to us all, beckoning across the landscape of our history, promising to realize itself and to give real meaning to what is otherwise only the confusion of our lives and our collective past.
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By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other.
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Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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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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I'm not an advocate of drugs. I'm an advocate of psychedelics.
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What we call three dimensional space, and what we call the imagination actually have a contiguous and continuous transformation from one into the other, ... and THIS is big news!
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Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.
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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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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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Science is the exploration of the experience of nature without psychedelics. And I propose, therefore, to expand that enterprise and say that we need a science beyond science. We need a science which plays with a full deck.
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