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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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Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.
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The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.
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And science, when it examines psychedelics, as it will and must, is going to discover a revolution, I believe, that will put all the previous revolutions in perspective.
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Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work.
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The mind is a far bigger domain than we ever imagined.
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The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products. This is terrifying news.
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You know what, I'm stoned, and I'm proud.
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The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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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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But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.
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For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.
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Our task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate.
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If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.
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Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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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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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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I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.
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