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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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We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire into the cold hard world of modern science, existentialism and all the rest of it.
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I have a skeptical and cranky side, and I'm forever puzzled why people believe the, seeming to me, dumb things that they choose to believe.
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LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same since, nor will we ever be, for LSD demonstrated, even to skeptics, that the mansions of heaven and gardens of paradise lie within each and all of us.
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Ayahuasca, unlike mushrooms and all these other things is only as good as the person who made it. . . . The ayahuasca is a combinatory drug, and so it brings the human interaction and the lore of it into a much more central position.
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By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.
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Let's not underrate cannabis, for cryin' out loud. Cannabis should be the glue of the community.
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What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.
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This is a general comment that you should take a committed dose of whatever it is you're taking so that there is no ambiguity, because there's nothing worse than a sub-threshold psychedelic experience.
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I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.
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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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Safety is really a concern of mine, and what I've been telling people recently is that until there's animal and human data on a drug it should probably be looked at very carefully.
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Without sounding too cliché, the Internet really is the birth of some kind of global mind.
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Time is a series of fluctuating variables.
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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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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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I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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What the psychedelic experience really is, is opening the doorway into a lost continent of the human mind, a continent that we have almost lost all connection to, and the nature of this lost world of the human mind is that it is a Gaian entelechy.
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