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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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The content of the dialogue with 'the Other' is a content that indicates that man's horizons are infinitely bright, that death is in fact, well, as Thomas Vaughn put it, 'the body is the placenta of the soul'
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There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental.
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Human history is a Gaian dream.
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LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.
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Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved.
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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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Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.
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Certainly neo-Platonism, Plotinus and Porphyry and that school are psychedelic philosophers. Their idea of an ascending hierarchy of more and more rarefied states is a sophisticated presentation of the shamanic cosmology, which is the cosmology that one experientially discovers when they involve themselves with psychedelics.
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No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We pursue a business-as-usual attitude in a surreal atmosphere of mounting crises and irreconcilable contradictions.
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I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.
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The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.
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The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.
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We live in condensations of our imagination
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It's getting funnier because everybody's categories are disintegrating, and the cult of political correctness dictates that we never point out that other people don't make sense.
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Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.
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The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself.
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The good news about psychedelics is that they are incredibly democratic. Even the clueless can be swept along if the dose is sufficient.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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To my mind this is what shamanic training must really be, is mnemonic training. If you want to bring the stuff back you have to train yourself to bring it back.
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The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice and the privacy of the individual mind.
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