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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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Inherited
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Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.
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You can stand back and look at this planet and see that we have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the love, and the community to produce a kind of human paradise.
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It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue, and Hollywood, and what have you.
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Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole.
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All time is is how much change you can pack into a second.
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It's getting funnier because everybody's categories are disintegrating, and the cult of political correctness dictates that we never point out that other people don't make sense.
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This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say that the universe, nature, is a novelty-conserving, or complexity-conserving engine.
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It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.
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Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.
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For unknown reasons, there is a tremendous concentration of psychoactive plants on the South American continent. The South American continent has more known hallucinogens than the rest of the planet combined.
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Technique to me is a kind of a ... I'm reluctant to talk about it because it seems so obvious to me what good technique is. I mean, you sit down, you shut up, and you pay attention is basically the good technique. And then the footnotes add on an empty stomach, in a dark room, feeling comfortable.
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I'm not an advocate of drugs. I'm an advocate of psychedelics.
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The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of.
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Man was not put on this planet to toil in the mud. Or the god who put us on this planet to toil in the mud is no god I want to have any part of. It's some kind of gnostic demon. It's some kind of cannibalistic demiurge that should be thoroughly renounced and rejected.
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One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.
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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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Let's not underrate cannabis, for cryin' out loud. Cannabis should be the glue of the community.
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We live in condensations of our imagination
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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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The engineers of the future will be poets.
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