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Science is the exploration of the experience of nature without psychedelics. And I propose, therefore, to expand that enterprise and say that we need a science beyond science. We need a science which plays with a full deck.
Terence McKenna
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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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I would argue that it's almost better to do heroin than to watch TV. At least when you're doing heroin you're responsible for your own reveries and thought processes. When you're mainlining TV what is it but endless messages to fetishize products?
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Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.
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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue, and Hollywood, and what have you.
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You will ride the Tao toward the concrescence and will be able to live in the light of its anticipation.
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Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
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