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LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.

Terence McKenna

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all about, we are edge-walking on an ontological transformation of what it means to be human.
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We are an intelligent species caught in an historical process. No generation which proceeded us knew what was going on, and there is no reason to assume that we know what's going on or that the generation which follows us will know what's going on. And what kind of trip is it anyway to insist on knowing what's going on?
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People have a right to get stoned. They have a right to think and explore their own minds. This is as intimate a part of their being as their sexuality. Any culture which mitigates that is clearly afraid of a full and fair and open dialogue about what reality is and what real human values ought to be.
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Our task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate.
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Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.
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To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.
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If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.
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That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with.
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To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.
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Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness. . . . Would that we could send robots who could film these psychedelic realities. . . . The presence of so much beauty is an argument to me that truth cannot be far away.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.
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All of you who have been through high dose psychedelic experiences know that it's very hard to carry stupid baggage through that keyhole. In fact you're lucky if you just get your soul and yourselves through and intact.
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Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.
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By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.
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The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.
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Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas
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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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For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.
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