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I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky.

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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Let's not underrate cannabis, for cryin' out loud. Cannabis should be the glue of the community.
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Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able to tolerate its splendor. It can't just reveal itself openly because we would be forfeited we'd never know what hit us.
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Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed
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Cyberspace is the human transition into a mathematical super space where we as a collectivity become optionally a single point of view.
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In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.
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The message coming back at all of us is: live without closure.
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Buddhism is a heresy on Hinduism. It was Hinduism that did the dirty work for Buddhism, by the time Buddha came along priest-craft was an ancient tradition in India.
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Impressionism is simply twenty minutes into LSD.
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This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level.
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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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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic.
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The psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
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It's the only hallucinogen I know, where if it's made right, the next day, or the day after the experience, you actually feel better than if you hadn't done it.
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