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The good news about psychedelics is that they are incredibly democratic. Even the clueless can be swept along if the dose is sufficient.

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
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The shaman has access to a superhuman dimension and a superhuman condition, and by being able to do that he affirms the potential for transcendence in all people. He is an exemplar, if you will.
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We can't sell short the spiritual power of cannabis, especially when eaten.
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I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.
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In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.
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The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.
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You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.
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What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.
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What is needed, is an awakening.
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As I see it, Being, the Cosmos, whatever you want to call it, is a struggle between two implacable forces: Novelty on the one side and habit on the other side.
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I see the psychedelic experience as both the centerpiece of prehistoric life and destined to be the centerpiece of any future that we want to be part of.
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But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.
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Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants
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If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.
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