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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.

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.
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A singularity is a place where the rules are broken. A miracle is a singularity.
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We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us.
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You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your purpose? To add to the complexity. Your enemy? Disorder, entropy, stupidity, and tastelessness.
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You can stand back and look at this planet and see that we have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love, and the community to produce a kind of human paradise.
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When we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward toward the futile promise of life that circles distant stars in order to still our cosmic loneliness. We should look within the paths of the heart lead to nearby universes full of life and affection for humanity.
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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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Even a billion people is too much. There's no way back to the simplicity we once knew, but there may be a way forward to the simplicity that we once knew.
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I regard these people who are peddling angst and peddling pessimism and all that stuff as so 'two minutes ago'.
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Our task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate.
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As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.
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But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.
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History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified.
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.
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Memory training is great psychedelic training.
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We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.
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Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.
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Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That's where culture gets real ugly. It is when you rub up against its ideologies.
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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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