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The mind is a far bigger domain than we ever imagined.
Terence McKenna
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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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Terence Kemp McKenna
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We [psychonauts] are all going to go into the books as pioneers, because it's too early for us to be anything else. There's no map, no finished database, just anecdotes of the crazy, crazy stuff that goes on. That's why it's so important to try and share [our stories].
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We are alienated, so alienated that the self must disguise itself as an extraterrestrial in order not to alarm us with the truly bizarre dimensions that it encompasses.
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The psychedelic species of visual beauty is something we don't see in our furniture styles and our architecture. It seems to be coming in, literally, from another dimension, and yet it is undeniably moving. It's beautiful.
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When we really understand time travel we may find out it's as common as dirt and has been going on all around us is all kinds of physical processes.
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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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The idea of psychedelic societies is something new. And it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone takes the drug. It merely means that the complexity and the mysteriousness of mind are centered in the consciousness of the civilization as the mystery which it comes from and which it must relate to in order to be relevant.
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The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Just as the history of yourself that you don't know is what your personal unconscious is made out of.
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We can't sell short the spiritual power of cannabis, especially when eaten.
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By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other.
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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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Culture as we're practicing it is causing a lot of pain.
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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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The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.
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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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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.
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It's getting funnier because everybody's categories are disintegrating, and the cult of political correctness dictates that we never point out that other people don't make sense.
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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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The same organizational principles which called us forth into self-reflection have called forth self-reflection out of the planet itself. And the problem then is for us to suspect this, act on our suspicion, and be good detectives, and track down the spirit in its lair. And this is what shamans are doing. They are hunters of spirit.
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What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.
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