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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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Terence Kemp McKenna
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Certainly the central Platonic idea, which is the idea of the ideas, these archetypal forms which stand outside of time is one which is confirmed by the psychedelic experience.
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LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.
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What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.
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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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The central figure in the archaic revival is the shaman.
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I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.
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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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It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . . And that this is how culture moves forward. That culture is a phenomenon dependent on the generation of ideas, plans, notions, connections. So this is precisely what these compounds are doing.
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To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.
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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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The Gaian mind is what were calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the planet - and without that experience we wander in a desert of bogus ideologies. But with that experience the compass of the self can be set.
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What good is a theory of how the universe works if it’s a series of tensor equations that, even when understood, come nowhere tangential to experience? The only intellectual or noetic or spiritual path worth following is one that builds on personal experience
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If you actually look at the etymology of the word 'hallucination', what it's come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That's the meaning of 'hallucination', to wander in the mind.
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And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.
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Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.
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What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.
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What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.
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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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Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language.
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To me, the most amazing the most amazing transformation in my lifetime is not the revolution of the Sixties but the counter revolution of the Seventies, where they managed to put the cuckoo clock back together again
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