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There is not the Newtonian universe deployed throughout the parsecs and kiliocosms of physical space and the interior mental universe. They are the same thing.

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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The same organizational principles which called us forth into self-reflection have called forth self-reflection out of the planet itself. And the problem then is for us to suspect this, act on our suspicion, and be good detectives, and track down the spirit in its lair. And this is what shamans are doing. They are hunters of spirit.
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What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.
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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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And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.
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History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified.
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I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there
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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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It's meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.
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Actually, the highest form of human organization is not realized in the democratic individual. It is realized in a dimension none of us have ever penetrated, which is the mind of the species, which is actually the hand at the tiller of history. . . . It is an organized entelechy of some sort, and human history is its signature on the primates.
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You know what, I'm stoned, and I'm proud.
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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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It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.
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Without sounding too cliché, the Internet really is the birth of some kind of global mind.
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The psychedelics are this immense tool for the inspection of our own nature.
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As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.
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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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Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.
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