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The future holds no terrors for a person who knows how process inevitably unfolds. They are always right and with it each moment.

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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Culture as we're practicing it is causing a lot of pain.
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If you actually look at the etymology of the word 'hallucination', what it's come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That's the meaning of 'hallucination', to wander in the mind.
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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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Language betrays, in order to mean.
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Within the context of the alchemical vocabulary, the psychedelic experience, as brought to us through plants long in the possession of Aboriginal people, appears to be the identical phenomena.
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And so, these are the things, the exploration of which, the singing about of which, makes us human beings. The exploration of the universe of the unseen is the business of human beings.
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One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic knowledge is available.
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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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Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.
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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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Ayahuasca, unlike mushrooms and all these other things is only as good as the person who made it. . . . The ayahuasca is a combinatory drug, and so it brings the human interaction and the lore of it into a much more central position.
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The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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You will ride the Tao toward the concrescence and will be able to live in the light of its anticipation.
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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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Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.
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We can't sell short the spiritual power of cannabis, especially when eaten.
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Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.
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The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.
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By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.
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