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Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
Ethnobotanist
Philosopher
Writer
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Terence Kemp McKenna
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The whole of the Amazonian narcotic complex, as it's called in the old literature, is based on activation of DMT by one strategy or another.
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Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.
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Culture as we're practicing it is causing a lot of pain.
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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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[This legendary Amazonian substance is] a cybernetic transdimentional medium of some sort that is generated out of the mysteries of the physiology of the human body.
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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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To me, the most amazing the most amazing transformation in my lifetime is not the revolution of the Sixties but the counter revolution of the Seventies, where they managed to put the cuckoo clock back together again
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Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.
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[DMT] raises all the questions in a hurry. It's so intense and so oriented toward the other and the visual and the hallucinogenic that it isn't really like a drug. It's more like an event that you ran into. You just came around a corner and there was the unspeakable.
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This is a general comment that you should take a committed dose of whatever it is you're taking so that there is no ambiguity, because there's nothing worse than a sub-threshold psychedelic experience.
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There is a morphological enfoldment occurring on this planet. It is bringing forth some entirely new order of being. We are a privileged part of this.
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When we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward toward the futile promise of life that circles distant stars in order to still our cosmic loneliness. We should look within the paths of the heart lead to nearby universes full of life and affection for humanity.
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Time is a series of fluctuating variables.
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Only responsible human beings can exist in an anarchistic society.
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What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.
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And the whole schtick of the psychedelic experience, I think, is reclaim immediate experience, realize that you out vote all parliaments, police forces, and major newspapers on the planet because, who knows, they may be illusions.
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Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.
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Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made.
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