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Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas

Terence McKenna

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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
Endangered
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Ideas
Good
World

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I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.
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And science, when it examines psychedelics, as it will and must, is going to discover a revolution, I believe, that will put all the previous revolutions in perspective.
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My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more personal in that it's an effort to impart [just] one idea that came out of an involvement with psychedelic substances.
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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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The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a journey into the presence of the Gaian mind.
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We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects...All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate tool.
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LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.
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I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.
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We don't have to look far for miracles because they're all around us. Everything is astonishing. The universe on it's surface is alive with mystery.
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That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.
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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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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 not an abuser. It takes me a long time to assimilate each experience. And I never have lost my respect for it. I mean I really feel dread. It is one of the emotions I always feel as I approach it, because I have no faith that my sails won't be ripped this time.
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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 regard these people who are peddling angst and peddling pessimism and all that stuff as so 'two minutes ago'.
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The same organizational principles which called us forth into self-reflection have called forth self-reflection out of the planet itself. And the problem then is for us to suspect this, act on our suspicion, and be good detectives, and track down the spirit in its lair. And this is what shamans are doing. They are hunters of spirit.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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The way out then is personal responsibility, new operating systems downloaded from outside of culture, which means from the deeper wisdom of the psychedelic plants and then a commitment to community and a motto of To the future, without fear! Without fear!
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We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.
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