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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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Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.
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There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules
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I'm not an abuser. It takes me a long time to assimilate each experience. And I never have lost my respect for it. I mean I really feel dread. It is one of the emotions I always feel as I approach it, because I have no faith that my sails won't be ripped this time.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.
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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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It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.
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I think institutions will inevitably substitute a rite or a ritual for the authentic, for the real McCoy, because then priests can control the pipeline to god, and the parishioner can approach with offerings. But if everybody can have a pipeline to deity, why then the whole priest scam is put out of business.
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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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Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes.
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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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To me, the most amazing the most amazing transformation in my lifetime is not the revolution of the Sixties but the counter revolution of the Seventies, where they managed to put the cuckoo clock back together again
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Well, you could almost say, I suppose, that the scientist seeks what is similar between any two days, or bluebirds, or glaciers. And the poet seeks what is different. The artist seeks to celebrate the unique.
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In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.
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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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For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.
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Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.
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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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