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We can't sell short the spiritual power of cannabis, especially when eaten.

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
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The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.
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What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.
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I regard these people who are peddling angst and peddling pessimism and all that stuff as so 'two minutes ago'.
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We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.
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We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.
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So I submit to you that what we represent is a Fifth Column, a Fifth Column that represents the best aspirations that human community is capable of, a Fifth Column that is willing to look at the structure of the psyche in contrast to the mess of society, and willing to dream.
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I'm meeting my obligations, somehow, always have, without ever truly working, without ever putting my shoulder to the wheel for the man. Of course I had to deal dope to do this!
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The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.
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This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in a voice which causes facts to be beheld by groups of people in a way that has been purged from profane language, for us relegated to poetry and that sort of thing.
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What they [psychedelics] cause is what I'm advocating, a fundamental revaluation of cultural values, because culture as we're practicing it currently is causing a lot of pain to a lot of people, and animals, and ecosystems, none of whom were ever allowed to vote on whether they wanted this process to go in this direction.
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Psychedelics are not flashlights into the chaos of the Freudian unconscious, they are tools for mathematically unpacking your mind into a higher dimensional space. In the Newtonian and print created space that we are walking around in you, are like a self extracting archive, that hasn't self extracted itself yet.
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I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.
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We're not going to save the monkey unless we can shed the monkey. And the greatest impetus, the greatest inspiration to the expression of our higher selves comes in the confrontation with psyche that occurs in the psychedelic experience.
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We [psychonauts] are all going to go into the books as pioneers, because it's too early for us to be anything else. There's no map, no finished database, just anecdotes of the crazy, crazy stuff that goes on. That's why it's so important to try and share [our stories].
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The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.
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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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