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This is a general law of the universe, overlooked by science, that out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say that the universe, nature, is a novelty-conserving, or complexity-conserving engine.
Terence McKenna
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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your purpose? To add to the complexity. Your enemy? Disorder, entropy, stupidity, and tastelessness.
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The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.
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Psychedelics are not flashlights into the chaos of the Freudian unconscious, they are tools for mathematically unpacking your mind into a higher dimensional space. In the Newtonian and print created space that we are walking around in you, are like a self extracting archive, that hasn't self extracted itself yet.
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Only responsible human beings can exist in an anarchistic society.
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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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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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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 cyberspace things are built out of light.
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Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human situation, new ideas are coming to the fore. Psilocybin is a selective filter for this. The wish to go to space is a selective filter for this. Just the wish to know your own mind is a selective filter for this.
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The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages and fall into a phase with the communication systems that nature has placed all around us.
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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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I'm not an advocate of drugs. I'm an advocate of psychedelics.
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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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You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.
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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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Human history is a Gaian dream.
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All time is is how much change you can pack into a second.
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There has been no progress in 60,000 years in reducing the psychedelic experience to a known quantity. It is as terrifying, as awesome, as ecstatic, as irreducible to us as it was to them.
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