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Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
Ethnobotanist
Philosopher
Writer
Paonia
Colorado
Terence Kemp McKenna
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Ideas
Good
World

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So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.
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Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language.
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Wherever we press beyond the thin curtain of rationalist culture, we discover the incredibly rich, erotic, scary, promising presence of this intelligent Other, that beckons us out of history, and says, you know: 'The galaxy lies waiting.'
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We must look to the native healers all over the world and study their methods... Their methods are chemical and personal. It's a combination of care, attention, intention and chemistry that allows consciousness to be made malleable and recast in other forms.
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We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.
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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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If you actually look at the etymology of the word 'hallucination', what it's come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That's the meaning of 'hallucination', to wander in the mind.
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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 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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The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.
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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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Reality itself is not static. This is one of the things that the psychedelic is trying to put across, that the reality we're embedded in is itself some kind of an organism and is evolving toward a conclusion.
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Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.
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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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