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There is no knowledge without risk taking.

Terence McKenna

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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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Terence Kemp McKenna
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We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us.
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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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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.
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Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.
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What the churches are peddling is high abstraction, and you really have to work yourself up into a lather to be able to accept that as worthy of that kind of attention. The psychedelic subset of society is into an experience, and it's accessible.
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What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.
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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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And I don't mean this metaphorically. I want to be taken seriously as proposing that the ennui of modernity is the consequence of a disruptive symbiotic relationship between ourselves and vegetable nature.
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We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.
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If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.
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Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved.
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Our medium is meat, but we are made of information.
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I discovered early in life a stunning truth that's made my life very complicated in its wake, but that I still think is true, and it's that people are very easy to love.
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No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions.
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Memory training is great psychedelic training.
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You will ride the Tao toward the concrescence and will be able to live in the light of its anticipation.
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The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.
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Don't diddle the dose. Once you have done your homework, go for it.
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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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We're not going to save the monkey unless we can shed the monkey. And the greatest impetus, the greatest inspiration to the expression of our higher selves comes in the confrontation with psyche that occurs in the psychedelic experience.
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