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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
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I'm not an abuser. It takes me a long time to assimilate each experience. And I never have lost my respect for it. I mean I really feel dread. It is one of the emotions I always feel as I approach it, because I have no faith that my sails won't be ripped this time.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer
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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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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 major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.
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In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.
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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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You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.
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Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.
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Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean.
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So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.
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