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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
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Terence Kemp McKenna
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By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.
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We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.
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We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.
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Even a billion people is too much. There's no way back to the simplicity we once knew, but there may be a way forward to the simplicity that we once knew.
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It doesn't matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people that's frightening.
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It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.
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Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.
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No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night.
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