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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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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
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Philosopher
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Terence Kemp McKenna
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Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.
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Our medium is meat, but we are made of information.
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I don't think that mass drug taking is a good idea. But I think that we must have a deputized minority, a shamanic professional class if you will, whose job is to bring ideas out of the deep black water and show them off to the rest of us and perform for our culture some of the cultural functions that shaman perform in pre-literate cultures.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.
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Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.
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What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.
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For unknown reasons, there is a tremendous concentration of psychoactive plants on the South American continent. The South American continent has more known hallucinogens than the rest of the planet combined.
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I think the world is growing more psychedelic every day. I'm completely hopeful. . . . This is how it should be. This is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for hyperspace.
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It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.
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