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Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.

Terence McKenna

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
Ethnobotanist
Philosopher
Writer
Paonia
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Terence Kemp McKenna
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In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the reduction centuries of modern science. We've re-understood that the world is one thing, and it's a living thing. It's a thing with an intent and a spirit within it, and this is the key concept.
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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.
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The only evil that associates itself with mushrooms is taking too little.
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The shaman is the figure at the beginning of human history that unites the doctor, the scientist and the artist into a single notion of care-giving and creativity.
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Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.
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In shamanism and certain yogas, Taoist yoga, claim very clearly that the purpose is to familiarize yourself with this after-death body, in life, and then the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche. You will recognize what is happening. You will know what to do. And you will make the clean break.
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Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean.
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We live in condensations of our imagination
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We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking that idea to ourselves we give everything away to somebody else, to something else.
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Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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Ultimate novelty must be a situation where all boundaries are dissolved.
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The psychedelic species of visual beauty is something we don't see in our furniture styles and our architecture. It seems to be coming in, literally, from another dimension, and yet it is undeniably moving. It's beautiful.
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Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.
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Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.
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An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.
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It's meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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You're immortal as long as you live.
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