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The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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Terence Kemp McKenna
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As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.
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In shamanism and certain yogas, Taoist yoga, claim very clearly that the purpose is to familiarize yourself with this after-death body, in life, and then the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche. You will recognize what is happening. You will know what to do. And you will make the clean break.
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The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.
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The idea of psychedelic societies is something new. And it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone takes the drug. It merely means that the complexity and the mysteriousness of mind are centered in the consciousness of the civilization as the mystery which it comes from and which it must relate to in order to be relevant.
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And so, these are the things, the exploration of which, the singing about of which, makes us human beings. The exploration of the universe of the unseen is the business of human beings.
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It's meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
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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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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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Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?
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We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire into the cold hard world of modern science, existentialism and all the rest of it.
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Our task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate.
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The real truth is splintered and spread throughout time.
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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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To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.
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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 populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.
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Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.
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You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.
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We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer.
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