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Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.

Terence McKenna

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
Ethnobotanist
Philosopher
Writer
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Terence Kemp McKenna
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I think that's the job of each of us - to show our best toys and our best tricks that lift us and our friends to higher and higher levels. There is no end to this bootstrapping process. The future of the human mind and body and the future of humans together is endlessly bright.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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The western mind, because of it's unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics.
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What you call man is time.
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Marcel Eliade took the position that hallucinogenic shamanism was decadent, and Gordon Wasson, very rightly I believe, contravened this view and held that actually it was very probably the presence of the hallucinogenic drug experience in the life of early man that lay the very basis for the idea of the spirit.
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What I always hoped for out of the psychedelic voyaging was to bring back something. I always felt, and still feel, that that is the attitude with which you should go into these things.
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I think institutions will inevitably substitute a rite or a ritual for the authentic, for the real McCoy, because then priests can control the pipeline to god, and the parishioner can approach with offerings. But if everybody can have a pipeline to deity, why then the whole priest scam is put out of business.
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I don't think that mass drug taking is a good idea. But I think that we must have a deputized minority, a shamanic professional class if you will, whose job is to bring ideas out of the deep black water and show them off to the rest of us and perform for our culture some of the cultural functions that shaman perform in pre-literate cultures.
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That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with.
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The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.
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The real truth is splintered and spread throughout time.
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A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.
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The only evil that associates itself with mushrooms is taking too little.
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The central figure in the archaic revival is the shaman.
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What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.
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Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.
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We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects...All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate tool.
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It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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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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