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Terence McKenna
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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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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.
Terence McKenna
Human history is a Gaian dream.
Terence McKenna
The psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it.
Terence McKenna
There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
Terence McKenna
I believe that the place to search for extraterrestrials is in the psychic dimension.
Terence McKenna
Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.
Terence McKenna
In cyberspace things are built out of light.
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.
Terence McKenna
The content of the dialogue with 'the Other' is a content that indicates that man's horizons are infinitely bright, that death is in fact, well, as Thomas Vaughn put it, 'the body is the placenta of the soul'
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We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of so much power that we now must understand what we are. We cannot travel much further with the definitions of man that we inherit from the Judeo-Christian tradition. We need to truly explore the problem of consciousness.
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By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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I started out in psychedelic drugs, and people said it was a flight from reality. It still is a flight from reality, but I think reality is now a bit more scary than the drugs we used to fly from it, so long ago.
Terence McKenna
But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.
Terence McKenna
The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of.
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The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.
Terence McKenna
It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.
Terence McKenna
Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.
Terence McKenna
Worrying is betting against yourself.
Terence McKenna
The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.
Terence McKenna