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The miracle of our predicament is not how long everything has been in place but how brief it all has been.
Terence McKenna
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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.
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The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.
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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 numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.
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The only frontier now left to exploit is not a frontier in space but a frontier in time. We steal the future from our children by plunging massively deeper and deeper into debt.
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Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.
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The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
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We don't have to look far for miracles because they're all around us. Everything is astonishing. The universe on it's surface is alive with mystery.
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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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The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it.
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A great turning point is in the offing. The world is changing. It's changed before, but not for a long time in our lives, not since before our lives. But now it's changing, and there are many many possibilities.
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For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.
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Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?
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It's meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.
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