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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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In cyberspace things are built out of light.
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All the accoutrements that distinguish us from animal existence were put in place when we had a different kind of mind than we have now. We didn't have a mind that favored role specialization, and male dominance, and anxiety over female sexual activity related to feelings of male ownership. That all came later.
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The way out then is personal responsibility, new operating systems downloaded from outside of culture, which means from the deeper wisdom of the psychedelic plants and then a commitment to community and a motto of To the future, without fear! Without fear!
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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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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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Standing outside the cultural hysteria the trend is fairly clear. It is a trend toward temporal compression and the emergence of ambiguity.
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I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky.
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The psychedelic species of visual beauty is something we don't see in our furniture styles and our architecture. It seems to be coming in, literally, from another dimension, and yet it is undeniably moving. It's beautiful.
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The idea of psychedelic societies is something new. And it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone takes the drug. It merely means that the complexity and the mysteriousness of mind are centered in the consciousness of the civilization as the mystery which it comes from and which it must relate to in order to be relevant.
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I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.
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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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If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.
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I regard these people who are peddling angst and peddling pessimism and all that stuff as so 'two minutes ago'.
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The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it.
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The only frontier now left to exploit is not a frontier in space but a frontier in time. We steal the future from our children by plunging massively deeper and deeper into debt.
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We must look to the native healers all over the world and study their methods... Their methods are chemical and personal. It's a combination of care, attention, intention and chemistry that allows consciousness to be made malleable and recast in other forms.
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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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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 we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.
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