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Reality itself is not static. This is one of the things that the psychedelic is trying to put across, that the reality we're embedded in is itself some kind of an organism and is evolving toward a conclusion.
Terence McKenna
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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Without sounding too cliché, the Internet really is the birth of some kind of global mind.
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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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The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.
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What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer
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We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us.
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By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other.
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We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer.
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For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.
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