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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.
Terence McKenna
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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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Look at the reputation they gave him. [Giordano] Bruno without the pyre is a whiskey priest laying waste to the maids of Umbria.
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We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire into the cold hard world of modern science, existentialism and all the rest of it.
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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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The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of.
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It's meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.
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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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It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know... You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You'll have that!
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Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.
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The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.
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The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.
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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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That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.
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