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You know what, I'm stoned, and I'm proud.

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
Ethnobotanist
Philosopher
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Terence Kemp McKenna
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I'm not an advocate of drugs. I'm an advocate of psychedelics.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level.
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Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.
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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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Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory is the past recaptured and understood. In the fact of experiencing and making the present, we are all actors.
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The only evil that associates itself with mushrooms is taking too little.
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The testimony of DMT, for me, is that there is a nearby dimension, teeming with intelligences, that from one of the more conservative perspectives seems like an ecology of souls.
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Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.
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The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it.
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History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified.
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I believe that the place to search for extraterrestrials is in the psychic dimension.
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That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.
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