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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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Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!
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The western mind, because of it's unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics.
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It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.
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That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.
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Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.
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I connect the psychedelic dimension to the dimension of inspiration and dream.
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Wherever we press beyond the thin curtain of rationalist culture, we discover the incredibly rich, erotic, scary, promising presence of this intelligent Other, that beckons us out of history, and says, you know: 'The galaxy lies waiting.'
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What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.
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I think institutions will inevitably substitute a rite or a ritual for the authentic, for the real McCoy, because then priests can control the pipeline to god, and the parishioner can approach with offerings. But if everybody can have a pipeline to deity, why then the whole priest scam is put out of business.
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It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.
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What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.
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