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Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order.

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being dropped into our laps for us to create human-machine interfacing, control of genetic material, redefinition of social reality, re engineering of languages, revisioning of the planetary ecology, all these things fall upon us.
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We are going through the eye of the needle make sure you leave what you don't need behind
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.
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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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What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.
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Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!
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Without sounding too cliché, the Internet really is the birth of some kind of global mind.
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It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.
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Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.
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What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.
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