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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.
Terence McKenna
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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.
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Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?
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Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.
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We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.
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It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.
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We're not going to save the monkey unless we can shed the monkey. And the greatest impetus, the greatest inspiration to the expression of our higher selves comes in the confrontation with psyche that occurs in the psychedelic experience.
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