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I think the entire message of the psychedelic experience, which is basically the sine qua non of the rebirth of alchemical understanding, the very basis of that understanding is that nature seeks to communicate.

Terence McKenna

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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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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People are, in the confines of their own apartments, becoming Magellans of the interior world and reaching out to this alien thing and beginning to map it and bring back stories that can only be compared to the kind of stories that the chroniclers of the New World brought back to Spain at the close of the 15th century.
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Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language.
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The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.
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[DMT] raises all the questions in a hurry. It's so intense and so oriented toward the other and the visual and the hallucinogenic that it isn't really like a drug. It's more like an event that you ran into. You just came around a corner and there was the unspeakable.
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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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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 felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.
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We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.
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The race isn't to the swift, it's to the thoughtful.
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