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The message coming back at all of us is: live without closure.

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
Ethnobotanist
Philosopher
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Terence Kemp McKenna
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until about 12,000 years ago there was no other form of religion on this planet. That was how people attained some kind of access to the sacred.
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The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional and spiritual values rather than products. This is terrifying news.
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Let's not underrate cannabis, for cryin' out loud. Cannabis should be the glue of the community.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.
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Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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The psychedelic species of visual beauty is something we don't see in our furniture styles and our architecture. It seems to be coming in, literally, from another dimension, and yet it is undeniably moving. It's beautiful.
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Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.
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For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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Without sounding too cliché, the Internet really is the birth of some kind of global mind.
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