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Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
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Terence Kemp McKenna
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Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it's not necessarily some kind of 'Be Here Now' feel-good thing because it doesn't always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It's primary.
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I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.
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The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.
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My normal lectures deal with the psychedelic experience as a generalized and historical phenomenon, but this effort at communication is slightly more personal in that it's an effort to impart [just] one idea that came out of an involvement with psychedelic substances.
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DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic.
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That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.
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But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.
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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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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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We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.
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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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And what is shamanism but philosophy with a hands-on attitude. Philosophy not made around the camp fire, but philosophy based on the acquisition of extreme experience. That's how you figure out what the world is, not by bicycling around in the burbs, but by forcing extreme experience.
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An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.
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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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History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.
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Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.
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The future holds no terrors for a person who knows how process inevitably unfolds. They are always right and with it each moment.
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I connect the psychedelic dimension to the dimension of inspiration and dream.
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I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are powerful but this isn't mysticism in the ordinary sense to be protected by mumblings about faith and all that. This is the real thing.
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It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable.
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