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Impressionism is simply twenty minutes into LSD.

Terence McKenna

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
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Philosopher
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Terence Kemp McKenna
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We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire into the cold hard world of modern science, existentialism and all the rest of it.
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Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.
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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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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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There is no knowledge without risk taking.
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The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.
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I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism.
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We are alienated, so alienated that the self must disguise itself as an extraterrestrial in order not to alarm us with the truly bizarre dimensions that it encompasses.
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Because I believe psychedelics are a kind of higher dimensional sectioning of reality, I think they give the kind of stereoscopic vision necessary to hold the entire hologram of what's happening in your mind. The old paradigm is gone.
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Wherever we press beyond the thin curtain of rationalist culture, we discover the incredibly rich, erotic, scary, promising presence of this intelligent Other, that beckons us out of history, and says, you know: 'The galaxy lies waiting.'
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Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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It's a relationship like to a crusty Zen master, or something like that. And it is really like another entity because you cannot predict the answers.
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...situations evolve as matter responds to the conditioning of time and space...If you know what is contained in time from its beginning to its end you are somehow no longer in time. Even though you still have a body and still eat and do what you do, you have discovered something that liberated you into a satisfying all-at-oneness.
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Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.
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The only real experience that counts, is your own.
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To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.
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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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We can't sell short the spiritual power of cannabis, especially when eaten.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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