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I believe that the place to search for extraterrestrials is in the psychic dimension.

Terence McKenna

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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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The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.
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You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.
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I see the psychedelic experience as both the centerpiece of prehistoric life and destined to be the centerpiece of any future that we want to be part of.
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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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Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.
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We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.
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Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to tolerate its splendor. It can't just reveal itself openly because we would be forfeited we'd never know what hit us.
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Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?
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I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.
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Memory training is great psychedelic training.
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For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.
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Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.
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We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.
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Science is the exploration of the experience of nature without psychedelics. And I propose, therefore, to expand that enterprise and say that we need a science beyond science. We need a science which plays with a full deck.
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It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.
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The possibility seems to be that what we call styles, or what we call motifs, are actually categories in the unconscious.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself.
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