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Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
Ethnobotanist
Philosopher
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Terence Kemp McKenna
Shamanism
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Human history is a Gaian dream.
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Marcel Eliade took the position that hallucinogenic shamanism was decadent, and Gordon Wasson, very rightly I believe, contravened this view and held that actually it was very probably the presence of the hallucinogenic drug experience in the life of early man that lay the very basis for the idea of the spirit.
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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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