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I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky.

Terence McKenna

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed [through use of psychedelics] as simply quaint cultural artifacts, painted masks and rattles assembled by people of good intent but clearly not great grasp of the situation.
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Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean.
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History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.
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DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic.
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Our task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate.
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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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I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.
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What you call man is time.
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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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