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I started out in psychedelic drugs, and people said it was a flight from reality. It still is a flight from reality, but I think reality is now a bit more scary than the drugs we used to fly from it, so long ago.
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 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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We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.
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In the silence, in the darkness, swept away by these alien alkaloids and the plant-mind behind them, you find out a truth that can barely be told. And most of it can't be told.
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We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
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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 psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it.
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Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control.
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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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