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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.
Terence McKenna
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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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Flying saucers are nothing more than miracles, and they occur essentially to bedevil science.
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What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.
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This is a general comment that you should take a committed dose of whatever it is you're taking so that there is no ambiguity, because there's nothing worse than a sub-threshold psychedelic experience.
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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.
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In the silence, in the darkness, swept away by these alien alkaloids and the plant-mind behind them, you find out a truth that can barely be told. And most of it can't be told.
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The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.
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Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.
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The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of the planet with safety.
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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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