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One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic knowledge is available.

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.
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This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level.
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Cyberspace is the human transition into a mathematical super space where we as a collectivity become optionally a single point of view.
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In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.
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We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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All the accoutrements that distinguish us from animal existence were put in place when we had a different kind of mind than we have now. We didn't have a mind that favored role specialization, and male dominance, and anxiety over female sexual activity related to feelings of male ownership. That all came later.
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We can't sell short the spiritual power of cannabis, especially when eaten.
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