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I think the world is growing more psychedelic every day. I'm completely hopeful. . . . This is how it should be. This is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for hyperspace.

Terence McKenna

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
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Terence Kemp McKenna
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The Earth itself is stepping in to aid in the agenda of cultural transformation. There are too many doorways in nature that lead to heaven, there are too many paths to the mystery for any institution or social policy to be able to thwart the intent of the human species to evolve.
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The Gaian mind is what were calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet - and without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies. But with that experience the compass of the self can be set.
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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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You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.
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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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Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.
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The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.
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All the accoutrements that distinguish us from animal existence were put in place when we had a different kind of mind than we have now. We didn't have a mind that favored role specialization, and male dominance, and anxiety over female sexual activity related to feelings of male ownership. That all came later.
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The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products. This is terrifying news.
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Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.
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There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental.
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We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.
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Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.
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I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism.
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Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.
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In a sense, what's happening is that the unconscious mind is a luxury the human species cannot afford at this point in our dilemma, and so the unconscious mind is simply rising into consciousness by being hardwired into this global infrastructure.
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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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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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Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That's where culture gets real ugly. It is when you rub up against its ideologies.
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The only evil that associates itself with mushrooms is taking too little.
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