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The real nature of our predicament is completely opaque to us.

Terence McKenna

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
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Terence Kemp McKenna
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The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.
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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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This is the key. If you get into deep water with these substances, this is true of psilocybin as well, you don't want to clench, you don't want to assume the fetal position and stop breathing. You want to sit up straight and breathe, and sing, and sing it back, and it will step back. You can take control of your situation ... most of the time.
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Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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Wherever we press beyond the thin curtain of rationalist culture, we discover the incredibly rich, erotic, scary, promising presence of this intelligent Other, that beckons us out of history, and says, you know: 'The galaxy lies waiting.'
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Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean.
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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 word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.
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I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.
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Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.
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Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
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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 must look to the native healers all over the world and study their methods... Their methods are chemical and personal. It's a combination of care, attention, intention and chemistry that allows consciousness to be made malleable and recast in other forms.
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I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world.
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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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We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects...All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate tool.
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The western mind, because of it's unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics.
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To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.
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The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.
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