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DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic.
Terence McKenna
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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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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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I think the experience over the past thousand years is that ideology is poisonous. . . . The world seen through the lens of ideology is a very limited world.
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Psychedelic experiences and dreams are chemical cousins they are only different in degree.
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In cyberspace things are built out of light.
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Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
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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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Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.
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DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen there is. If it gets stronger than that I don't want to know about it.
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And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.
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I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off. You either love them or you hate them, and that's because they dissolve world views. And if you like the experience of having your entire ontological structure disappear out from under you, if you think that's a thrill, you'll probably love psychedelics.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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