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There is no knowledge without risk taking.

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
Ethnobotanist
Philosopher
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Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas
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I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.
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That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with.
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This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say that the universe, nature, is a novelty-conserving, or complexity-conserving engine.
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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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Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal people, appears to be the identical phenomena.
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Without sounding too cliché, the Internet really is the birth of some kind of global mind.
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I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism.
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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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We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.
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And the whole schtick of the psychedelic experience, I think, is reclaim immediate experience, realize that you out vote all parliaments, police forces, and major newspapers on the planet because, who knows, they may be illusions.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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We can't sell short the spiritual power of cannabis, especially when eaten.
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What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that nature builds on previously established levels of complexity.
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I think institutions will inevitably substitute a rite or a ritual for the authentic, for the real McCoy, because then priests can control the pipeline to god, and the parishioner can approach with offerings. But if everybody can have a pipeline to deity, why then the whole priest scam is put out of business.
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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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The Gaian mind is what were calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet - and without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies. But with that experience the compass of the self can be set.
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Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.
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Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there the path is known you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
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