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What you call man is time.

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
Ethnobotanist
Philosopher
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Terence Kemp McKenna
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We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
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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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What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense at all.
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Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas
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The mind is a far bigger domain than we ever imagined.
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Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it's not necessarily some kind of 'Be Here Now' feel-good thing because it doesn't always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It's primary.
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Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.
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In cyberspace things are built out of light.
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Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.
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The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice and the privacy of the individual mind.
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I would argue that it's almost better to do heroin than to watch TV. At least when you're doing heroin you're responsible for your own reveries and thought processes. When you're mainlining TV what is it but endless messages to fetishize products?
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One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.
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Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order.
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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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Culture as we're practicing it is causing a lot of pain.
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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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Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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Skywalker is a direct translation of the word shaman out of the Tungusic, which is where Siberian shamanism comes from. So these heroes that are being instilled in the heart of the culture are shamanic heroes. They control a force which is bigger than everybody and holds the galaxy together.
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The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information
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