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Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.
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 believe that the place to search for extraterrestrials is in the psychic dimension.
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Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience.
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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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LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.
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You're immortal as long as you live.
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You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole.
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Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That's where culture gets real ugly. It is when you rub up against its ideologies.
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The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of the planet with safety.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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A great turning point is in the offing. The world is changing. It's changed before, but not for a long time in our lives, not since before our lives. But now it's changing, and there are many many possibilities.
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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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Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.
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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
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