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An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.
Terence McKenna
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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.
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Science is the exploration of the experience of nature without psychedelics. And I propose, therefore, to expand that enterprise and say that we need a science beyond science. We need a science which plays with a full deck.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer
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So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.
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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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I discovered early in life a stunning truth that's made my life very complicated in its wake, but that I still think is true, and it's that people are very easy to love.
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A history-stopping archetype is being released into the skies of this planet, and if we are not careful it will halt all intellectual inquiry in the same way that the Christos archetype halted intellectual inquiry in the Hellenistic Age.
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There is a sort of fair play, and if you can get in touch with that in your life, if you can have that perception, the world will begin to work for you, it will begin to move toward you... Nature loves courage, and it shows you that loves courage because it will remove obstacles.
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Memory training is great psychedelic training.
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The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.
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