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Flying saucers are nothing more than miracles, and they occur essentially to bedevil science.
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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same since, nor will we ever be, for LSD demonstrated, even to skeptics, that the mansions of heaven and gardens of paradise lie within each and all of us.
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Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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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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When we really understand time travel we may find out it's as common as dirt and has been going on all around us is all kinds of physical processes.
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Impressionism is simply twenty minutes into LSD.
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Standing outside the cultural hysteria the trend is fairly clear. It is a trend toward temporal compression and the emergence of ambiguity.
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You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your purpose? To add to the complexity. Your enemy? Disorder, entropy, stupidity, and tastelessness.
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The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.
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Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
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For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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This is a very central part of the psychedelic attitude toward the world, to entertain all possibilities but to never commit to belief. Belief always being seen as a kind of trap, because if you belief something you are forever precluded from believing its opposite.
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What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.
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Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.
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Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human situation, new ideas are coming to the fore. Psilocybin is a selective filter for this. The wish to go to space is a selective filter for this. Just the wish to know your own mind is a selective filter for this.
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The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.
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Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.
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There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental.
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