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Our medium is meat, but we are made of information.
Terence McKenna
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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
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Terence Kemp McKenna
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Information is just simply bootstrapping itself to higher and higher levels of self-reflection and self-coordination using whatever means are necessary.
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We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.
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Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.
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Nothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement. So it's very important to actually listen to your own intuition rather than driving through it.
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It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . . And that this is how culture moves forward. That culture is a phenomenon dependent on the generation of ideas, plans, notions, connections. So this is precisely what these compounds are doing.
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We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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What we call three dimensional space, and what we call the imagination actually have a contiguous and continuous transformation from one into the other, ... and THIS is big news!
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What is needed, is an awakening.
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Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
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The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself.
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'Drugs' and psychedelics are not two members of a family, they are antithetically opposed to each other. The pro-psychedelic position is an anti-drug position.
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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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A singularity is a place where the rules are broken. A miracle is a singularity.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.
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The content of the dialogue with 'the Other' is a content that indicates that man's horizons are infinitely bright, that death is in fact, well, as Thomas Vaughn put it, 'the body is the placenta of the soul'
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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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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As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.
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In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.
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If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.
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