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In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.
Terence McKenna
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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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The race isn't to the swift, it's to the thoughtful.
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The quality of rhetoric emanating from the psychedelic community must improve radically. If it does not, we will forfeit the reclamation of our birthright and all opportunity for exploring the psychedelic dimension will be closed off.
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A history-stopping archetype is being released into the skies of this planet, and if we are not careful it will halt all intellectual inquiry in the same way that the Christos archetype halted intellectual inquiry in the Hellenistic Age.
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The engineers of the future will be poets.
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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 are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer.
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I'm not an advocate of drugs. I'm an advocate of psychedelics.
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What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.
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