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Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
Ethnobotanist
Philosopher
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Terence Kemp McKenna
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We have outlived this embryo, this human cradle, and now it's time to be up and about the great business of becoming citizens of the galaxy and at home with our own heart.
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The central figure in the archaic revival is the shaman.
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I'm not an advocate of drugs. I'm an advocate of psychedelics.
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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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Without sounding too cliché, the Internet really is the birth of some kind of global mind.
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I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.
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The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.
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I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.
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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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As I see it, Being, the Cosmos, whatever you want to call it, is a struggle between two implacable forces: Novelty on the one side and habit on the other side.
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Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order.
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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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I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me happy.
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I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.
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