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I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.
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Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.
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Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.
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It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.
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It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.
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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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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen there is. If it gets stronger than that I don't want to know about it.
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I think that's the job of each of us - to show our best toys and our best tricks that lift us and our friends to higher and higher levels. There is no end to this bootstrapping process. The future of the human mind and body and the future of humans together is endlessly bright.
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Safety is really a concern of mine, and what I've been telling people recently is that until there's animal and human data on a drug it should probably be looked at very carefully.
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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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All time is is how much change you can pack into a second.
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Let's not underrate cannabis, for cryin' out loud. Cannabis should be the glue of the community.
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Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.
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Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
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You're immortal as long as you live.
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I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are powerful but this isn't mysticism in the ordinary sense to be protected by mumblings about faith and all that. This is the real thing.
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