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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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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.
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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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As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.
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Certainly neo-Platonism, Plotinus and Porphyry and that school are psychedelic philosophers. Their idea of an ascending hierarchy of more and more rarefied states is a sophisticated presentation of the shamanic cosmology, which is the cosmology that one experientially discovers when they involve themselves with psychedelics.
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It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . . And that this is how culture moves forward. That culture is a phenomenon dependent on the generation of ideas, plans, notions, connections. So this is precisely what these compounds are doing.
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The mind is a far bigger domain than we ever imagined.
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History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.
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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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Technique to me is a kind of a ... I'm reluctant to talk about it because it seems so obvious to me what good technique is. I mean, you sit down, you shut up, and you pay attention is basically the good technique. And then the footnotes add on an empty stomach, in a dark room, feeling comfortable.
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If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.
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I'm not an advocate of drugs. I'm an advocate of psychedelics.
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Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That's where culture gets real ugly. It is when you rub up against its ideologies.
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We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.
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There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental.
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We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer
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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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