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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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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.
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The psychedelic experience is the beginning of the spiritual path. That's why it's not important that yogas' claim that they can deliver you the psychedelic experience, because it begins with the psychedelic experience, and then you go from there.
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I believe that what makes the psychedelic experience so central is that it is a connection into a larger modality of organization on the planet, which is a fancy way of saying it connects you up to the mind of Nature Herself.
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I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me happy.
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Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.
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Cyberspace is the human transition into a mathematical super space where we as a collectivity become optionally a single point of view.
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Human history is a Gaian dream.
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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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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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I have a skeptical and cranky side, and I'm forever puzzled why people believe the, seeming to me, dumb things that they choose to believe.
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Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?
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