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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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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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DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen there is. If it gets stronger than that I don't want to know about it.
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Flying saucers are nothing more than miracles, and they occur essentially to bedevil science.
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Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.
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So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.
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It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.
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Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.
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Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean.
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The possibility seems to be that what we call styles, or what we call motifs, are actually categories in the unconscious.
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What is needed, is an awakening.
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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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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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The intellectual tension that seems to work its way through this society almost like fat through meat is the tension between scientific reductionism and the deeply felt intuition of most people that there is a spiritual dimension, or a hidden dimension, or a transcendental dimension.
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We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.
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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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Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order.
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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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What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that nature builds on previously established levels of complexity.
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What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.
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There is not the Newtonian universe deployed throughout the parsecs and kiliocosms of physical space and the interior mental universe. They are the same thing.
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