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Even a billion people is too much. There's no way back to the simplicity we once knew, but there may be a way forward to the simplicity that we once knew.
Terence McKenna
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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?
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Actually, the highest form of human organization is not realized in the democratic individual. It is realized in a dimension none of us have ever penetrated, which is the mind of the species, which is actually the hand at the tiller of history. . . . It is an organized entelechy of some sort, and human history is its signature on the primates.
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If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.
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I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism.
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The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.
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The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.
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Don't diddle the dose. Once you have done your homework, go for it.
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