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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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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
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Philosopher
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The only real experience that counts, is your own.
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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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Well, you could almost say, I suppose, that the scientist seeks what is similar between any two days, or bluebirds, or glaciers. And the poet seeks what is different. The artist seeks to celebrate the unique.
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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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If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.
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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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You know what, I'm stoned, and I'm proud.
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By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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When we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward toward the futile promise of life that circles distant stars in order to still our cosmic loneliness. We should look within the paths of the heart lead to nearby universes full of life and affection for humanity.
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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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Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art.
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Flying saucers are nothing more than miracles, and they occur essentially to bedevil science.
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We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place.
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Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.
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