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Terence McKenna
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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of their own culture.
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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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To my mind this is what shamanic training must really be, is mnemonic training. If you want to bring the stuff back you have to train yourself to bring it back.
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A singularity is a place where the rules are broken. A miracle is a singularity.
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The western mind, because of it's unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics.
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Standing outside the cultural hysteria the trend is fairly clear. It is a trend toward temporal compression and the emergence of ambiguity.
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There has been no progress in 60,000 years in reducing the psychedelic experience to a known quantity. It is as terrifying, as awesome, as ecstatic, as irreducible to us as it was to them.
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I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.
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Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.
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Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.
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Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.
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Don't diddle the dose. Once you have done your homework, go for it.
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It's getting funnier because everybody's categories are disintegrating, and the cult of political correctness dictates that we never point out that other people don't make sense.
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Technique to me is a kind of a ... I'm reluctant to talk about it because it seems so obvious to me what good technique is. I mean, you sit down, you shut up, and you pay attention is basically the good technique. And then the footnotes add on an empty stomach, in a dark room, feeling comfortable.
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