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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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Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory is the past recaptured and understood. In the fact of experiencing and making the present, we are all actors.
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What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.
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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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No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night.
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People have a right to get stoned. They have a right to think and explore their own minds. This is as intimate a part of their being as their sexuality. Any culture which mitigates that is clearly afraid of a full and fair and open dialogue about what reality is and what real human values ought to be.
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Human history is a Gaian dream.
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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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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 need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.
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The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice and the privacy of the individual mind.
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