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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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I'm meeting my obligations, somehow, always have, without ever truly working, without ever putting my shoulder to the wheel for the man. Of course I had to deal dope to do this!
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Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.
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The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.
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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
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