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To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.

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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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When your time is turned into money, the felt presence of immediate experience is analogous to being enslaved. I mean, let's be frank about it, it is enslavement.
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Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.
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Human history is a Gaian dream.
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Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made.
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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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Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.
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Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!
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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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Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to tolerate its splendor. It can't just reveal itself openly because we would be forfeited we'd never know what hit us.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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