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Part of what is wrong with our society, and hence with ourselves, is that we consume images, we don't produce them. We need to produce, not consume, media.
Terence McKenna
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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky.
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If you actually look at the etymology of the word 'hallucination', what it's come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That's the meaning of 'hallucination', to wander in the mind.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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The real truth is splintered and spread throughout time.
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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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You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.
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Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one which is confirmed by the psychedelic experience.
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And the whole schtick of the psychedelic experience, I think, is reclaim immediate experience, realize that you out vote all parliaments, police forces, and major newspapers on the planet because, who knows, they may be illusions.
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Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.
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We can't sell short the spiritual power of cannabis, especially when eaten.
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There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.
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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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The mind is a far bigger domain than we ever imagined.
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What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.
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The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.
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In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.
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Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human situation, new ideas are coming to the fore. Psilocybin is a selective filter for this. The wish to go to space is a selective filter for this. Just the wish to know your own mind is a selective filter for this.
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