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The only real experience that counts, is your own.

Terence McKenna

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
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Philosopher
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Terence Kemp McKenna
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For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.
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There has been no progress in 60,000 years in reducing the psychedelic experience to a known quantity. It is as terrifying, as awesome, as ecstatic, as irreducible to us as it was to them.
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Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there the path is known you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
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The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of.
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What they [psychedelics] cause is what I'm advocating, a fundamental revaluation of cultural values, because culture as we're practicing it currently is causing a lot of pain to a lot of people, and animals, and ecosystems, none of whom were ever allowed to vote on whether they wanted this process to go in this direction.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.
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The thing is that it is incredibly frustrating to anyone who would control it, because you can't predict the impact of any technology before you put it in place.
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Only responsible human beings can exist in an anarchistic society.
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All time is is how much change you can pack into a second.
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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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Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer
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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 felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.
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Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.
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It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.
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We [psychonauts] are all going to go into the books as pioneers, because it's too early for us to be anything else. There's no map, no finished database, just anecdotes of the crazy, crazy stuff that goes on. That's why it's so important to try and share [our stories].
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LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.
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Our task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate.
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