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I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me happy.
Terence McKenna
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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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A singularity is a place where the rules are broken. A miracle is a singularity.
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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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It's as though a certain level of intoxication with the mushroom is the precondition for being able to communicate, but is not itself enough.
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Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one which is confirmed by the psychedelic experience.
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Our task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate.
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What good is a theory of how the universe works if it’s a series of tensor equations that, even when understood, come nowhere tangential to experience? The only intellectual or noetic or spiritual path worth following is one that builds on personal experience
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I believe that the place to search for extraterrestrials is in the psychic dimension.
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The only evil that associates itself with mushrooms is taking too little.
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This is a very central part of the psychedelic attitude toward the world, to entertain all possibilities but to never commit to belief. Belief always being seen as a kind of trap, because if you belief something you are forever precluded from believing its opposite.
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If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.
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