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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.

Terence McKenna

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
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Terence Kemp McKenna
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The sine qua non for obtaining a psychedelic experience is humbling yourself to the point where you admit that you must submit to the experience of the plant or the drug. This act of surrender is the major technical function you will be called upon to perform during the psychedelic trip.
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Skywalker is a direct translation of the word shaman out of the Tungusic, which is where Siberian shamanism comes from. So these heroes that are being instilled in the heart of the culture are shamanic heroes. They control a force which is bigger than everybody and holds the galaxy together.
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History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.
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Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of the psychedelic illusion/delusion/revelation that life is in fact art.
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Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.
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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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It's meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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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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I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me happy.
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Safety is really a concern of mine, and what I've been telling people recently is that until there's animal and human data on a drug it should probably be looked at very carefully.
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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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The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.
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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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For all we know, we know nothing.
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The only evil that associates itself with mushrooms is taking too little.
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Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.
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Our medium is meat, but we are made of information.
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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself.
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