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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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Terence Kemp McKenna
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What we call three dimensional space, and what we call the imagination actually have a contiguous and continuous transformation from one into the other, ... and THIS is big news!
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Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding The strangeness seems to be accelerating.
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What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.
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This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all about, we are edge-walking on an ontological transformation of what it means to be human.
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Man was not put on this planet to toil in the mud. Or the god who put us on this planet to toil in the mud is no god I want to have any part of. It's some kind of gnostic demon. It's some kind of cannibalistic demiurge that should be thoroughly renounced and rejected.
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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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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.
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Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.
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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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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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I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.
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LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.
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We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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We can't sell short the spiritual power of cannabis, especially when eaten.
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The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.
Terence McKenna
We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place.
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What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.
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Human history is a Gaian dream.
Terence McKenna
The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice and the privacy of the individual mind.
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