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We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
Ethnobotanist
Philosopher
Writer
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Terence Kemp McKenna
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The sine qua non for obtaining a psychedelic experience is humbling yourself to the point where you admit that you must submit to the experience of the plant or the drug. This act of surrender is the major technical function you will be called upon to perform during the psychedelic trip.
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I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there
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It's meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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The Gaian mind is what were calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet - and without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies. But with that experience the compass of the self can be set.
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Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.
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To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.
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My hope is that I may bear witness to the fact that there is a great mystery calling to us all, beckoning across the landscape of our history, promising to realize itself and to give real meaning to what is otherwise only the confusion of our lives and our collective past.
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The only evil that associates itself with mushrooms is taking too little.
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The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
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A singularity is a place where the rules are broken. A miracle is a singularity.
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Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.
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Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.
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Our medium is meat, but we are made of information.
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'Drugs' and psychedelics are not two members of a family, they are antithetically opposed to each other. The pro-psychedelic position is an anti-drug position.
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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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Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.
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The whole of the Amazonian narcotic complex, as it's called in the old literature, is based on activation of DMT by one strategy or another.
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