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The real truth is splintered and spread throughout time.

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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 have never felt that the primary use of these things was to cure what is called in modern parlance neurosis, what I call unhappiness. It isn't for that.
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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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It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.
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Our medium is meat, but we are made of information.
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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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Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes.
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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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What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.
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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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Reality itself is not static. This is one of the things that the psychedelic is trying to put across, that the reality we're embedded in is itself some kind of an organism and is evolving toward a conclusion.
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What the churches are peddling is high abstraction, and you really have to work yourself up into a lather to be able to accept that as worthy of that kind of attention. The psychedelic subset of society is into an experience, and it's accessible.
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We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer.
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In a sense, what's happening is that the unconscious mind is a luxury the human species cannot afford at this point in our dilemma, and so the unconscious mind is simply rising into consciousness by being hardwired into this global infrastructure.
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The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.
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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 was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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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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Human history is a Gaian dream.
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Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?
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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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