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The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.
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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Terence Kemp McKenna
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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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Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to tolerate its splendor. It can't just reveal itself openly because we would be forfeited we'd never know what hit us.
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The psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it.
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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 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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LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same since, nor will we ever be, for LSD demonstrated, even to skeptics, that the mansions of heaven and gardens of paradise lie within each and all of us.
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Let's not underrate cannabis, for cryin' out loud. Cannabis should be the glue of the community.
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When we really understand time travel we may find out it's as common as dirt and has been going on all around us is all kinds of physical processes.
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In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.
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The shaman has access to a superhuman dimension and a superhuman condition, and by being able to do that he affirms the potential for transcendence in all people. He is an exemplar, if you will.
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Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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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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The intellectual tension that seems to work its way through this society almost like fat through meat is the tension between scientific reductionism and the deeply felt intuition of most people that there is a spiritual dimension, or a hidden dimension, or a transcendental dimension.
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Our medium is meat, but we are made of information.
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Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.
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It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know... You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You'll have that!
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There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.
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As I see it, Being, the Cosmos, whatever you want to call it, is a struggle between two implacable forces: Novelty on the one side and habit on the other side.
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The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.
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