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The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.
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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Skywalker is a direct translation of the word shaman out of the Tungusic, which is where Siberian shamanism comes from. So these heroes that are being instilled in the heart of the culture are shamanic heroes. They control a force which is bigger than everybody and holds the galaxy together.
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The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.
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Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness. . . . Would that we could send robots who could film these psychedelic realities. . . . The presence of so much beauty is an argument to me that truth cannot be far away.
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I connect the psychedelic dimension to the dimension of inspiration and dream.
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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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A singularity is a place where the rules are broken. A miracle is a singularity.
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The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.
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Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language.
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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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Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it's not necessarily some kind of 'Be Here Now' feel-good thing because it doesn't always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It's primary.
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Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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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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