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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.

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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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It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know... You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You'll have that!
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The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.
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And science, when it examines psychedelics, as it will and must, is going to discover a revolution, I believe, that will put all the previous revolutions in perspective.
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DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen there is. If it gets stronger than that I don't want to know about it.
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Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.
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Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.
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The only real experience that counts, is your own.
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The testimony of DMT, for me, is that there is a nearby dimension, teeming with intelligences, that from one of the more conservative perspectives seems like an ecology of souls.
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What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.
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As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.
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If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language. They cause us to connect and reconnect the contents of the collective mind in ever more implausible, beautiful, and self-fulfilling ways.
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The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.
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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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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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The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.
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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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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a form of enforced infantilism. It's the last nursery, and most people never leave it.
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The real nature of our predicament is completely opaque to us.
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What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.
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