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I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
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For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.
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Only responsible human beings can exist in an anarchistic society.
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In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the reduction centuries of modern science. We've re-understood that the world is one thing, and it's a living thing. It's a thing with an intent and a spirit within it, and this is the key concept.
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Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.
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We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.
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Don't diddle the dose. Once you have done your homework, go for it.
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I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off. You either love them or you hate them, and that's because they dissolve world views. And if you like the experience of having your entire ontological structure disappear out from under you, if you think that's a thrill, you'll probably love psychedelics.
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Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to tolerate its splendor. It can't just reveal itself openly because we would be forfeited we'd never know what hit us.
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Science is the exploration of the experience of nature without psychedelics. And I propose, therefore, to expand that enterprise and say that we need a science beyond science. We need a science which plays with a full deck.
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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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It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.
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Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.
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The message coming back at all of us is: live without closure.
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And science, when it examines psychedelics, as it will and must, is going to discover a revolution, I believe, that will put all the previous revolutions in perspective.
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The content of the dialogue with 'the Other' is a content that indicates that man's horizons are infinitely bright, that death is in fact, well, as Thomas Vaughn put it, 'the body is the placenta of the soul'
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Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.
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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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You're immortal as long as you live.
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