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Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.
Terence McKenna
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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.
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You will ride the Tao toward the concrescence and will be able to live in the light of its anticipation.
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Without sounding too cliché, the Internet really is the birth of some kind of global mind.
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I think that's the job of each of us - to show our best toys and our best tricks that lift us and our friends to higher and higher levels. There is no end to this bootstrapping process. The future of the human mind and body and the future of humans together is endlessly bright.
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We must look to the native healers all over the world and study their methods... Their methods are chemical and personal. It's a combination of care, attention, intention and chemistry that allows consciousness to be made malleable and recast in other forms.
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The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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