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Culture as we're practicing it is causing a lot of pain.

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
Ethnobotanist
Philosopher
Writer
Paonia
Colorado
Terence Kemp McKenna
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What the psychedelic experience really is, is opening the doorway into a lost continent of the human mind, a continent that we have almost lost all connection to, and the nature of this lost world of the human mind is that it is a Gaian entelechy.
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The shaman has access to a superhuman dimension and a superhuman condition, and by being able to do that he affirms the potential for transcendence in all people. He is an exemplar, if you will.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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There is no mundane dimension really, if you have the eyes to see it, it is all transcendental.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer
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What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that nature builds on previously established levels of complexity.
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A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.
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It doesn't matter what your cultural conditioning is, it falls into question under the influence of the psychedelic. And for most people that's frightening.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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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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What the churches are peddling is high abstraction, and you really have to work yourself up into a lather to be able to accept that as worthy of that kind of attention. The psychedelic subset of society is into an experience, and it's accessible.
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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.
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