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Information is just simply bootstrapping itself to higher and higher levels of self-reflection and self-coordination using whatever means are necessary.

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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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Whatever
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All psychedelic explorers should be aware of the concept of what is called a cognitive hallucination. The is a much more insidious phenomenon. This is, quite simply, an out-and-out delusion.
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Language betrays, in order to mean.
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If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.
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I think the entire message of the psychedelic experience, which is basically the sine qua non of the rebirth of alchemical understanding, the very basis of that understanding is that nature seeks to communicate.
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You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.
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I believe that what makes the psychedelic experience so central is that it is a connection into a larger modality of organization on the planet, which is a fancy way of saying it connects you up to the mind of Nature Herself.
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Let's not underrate cannabis, for cryin' out loud. Cannabis should be the glue of the community.
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You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.
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The message coming back at all of us is: live without closure.
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I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.
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Well, certainly the Voynich Manuscript is the 'limit text' of Western occultism. No one can read it. It is truly an occult book.
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Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes.
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What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.
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As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.
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The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
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Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That's where culture gets real ugly. It is when you rub up against its ideologies.
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The mind is a far bigger domain than we ever imagined.
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I connect the psychedelic dimension to the dimension of inspiration and dream.
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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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People are, in the confines of their own apartments, becoming Magellans of the interior world and reaching out to this alien thing and beginning to map it and bring back stories that can only be compared to the kind of stories that the chroniclers of the New World brought back to Spain at the close of the 15th century.
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