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The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.
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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That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with.
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I believe that the place to search for extraterrestrials is in the psychic dimension.
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I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.
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We are an intelligent species caught in an historical process. No generation which proceeded us knew what was going on, and there is no reason to assume that we know what's going on or that the generation which follows us will know what's going on. And what kind of trip is it anyway to insist on knowing what's going on?
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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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I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky.
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LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.
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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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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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Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.
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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.
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Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work.
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The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.
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