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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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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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Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art.
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I believe that what makes the psychedelic experience so central is that it is a connection into a larger modality of organization on the planet, which is a fancy way of saying it connects you up to the mind of Nature Herself.
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The world could be anything, you know, It could be a solid state matrix of some sort. It could be an illusion. It could be a dream. I mean it really could be a dream.
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One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic knowledge is available.
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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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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious phenomenon. This is, quite simply, an out-and-out delusion.
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I started out in psychedelic drugs, and people said it was a flight from reality. It still is a flight from reality, but I think reality is now a bit more scary than the drugs we used to fly from it, so long ago.
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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The central figure in the archaic revival is the shaman.
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You know what, I'm stoned, and I'm proud.
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In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.
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Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.
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The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.
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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 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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But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.
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So I submit to you that what we represent is a Fifth Column, a Fifth Column that represents the best aspirations that human community is capable of, a Fifth Column that is willing to look at the structure of the psyche in contrast to the mess of society, and willing to dream.
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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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