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There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.
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The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.
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Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language.
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The good news about psychedelics is that they are incredibly democratic. Even the clueless can be swept along if the dose is sufficient.
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And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.
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I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.
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Even a billion people is too much. There's no way back to the simplicity we once knew, but there may be a way forward to the simplicity that we once knew.
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What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that nature builds on previously established levels of complexity.
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This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all about, we are edge-walking on an ontological transformation of what it means to be human.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.
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Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order.
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Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to tolerate its splendor. It can't just reveal itself openly because we would be forfeited we'd never know what hit us.
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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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We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.
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Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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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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The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice and the privacy of the individual mind.
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When your time is turned into money, the felt presence of immediate experience is analogous to being enslaved. I mean, let's be frank about it, it is enslavement.
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