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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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The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of.
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I'm meeting my obligations, somehow, always have, without ever truly working, without ever putting my shoulder to the wheel for the man. Of course I had to deal dope to do this!
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Psychedelics can carry you farther and faster than most people care to go. Once you get to psychedelics, it's no longer a matter of seeking the answer, you have found the answer. Now the issue changes dramatically, you must face the answer.
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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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Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.
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The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.
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Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.
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We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire into the cold hard world of modern science, existentialism and all the rest of it.
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The mind is a far bigger domain than we ever imagined.
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The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
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The future holds no terrors for a person who knows how process inevitably unfolds. They are always right and with it each moment.
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Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.
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What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.
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Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.
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We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of so much power that we now must understand what we are. We cannot travel much further with the definitions of man that we inherit from the Judeo-Christian tradition. We need to truly explore the problem of consciousness.
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In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the reduction centuries of modern science. We've re-understood that the world is one thing, and it's a living thing. It's a thing with an intent and a spirit within it, and this is the key concept.
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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
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A history-stopping archetype is being released into the skies of this planet, and if we are not careful it will halt all intellectual inquiry in the same way that the Christos archetype halted intellectual inquiry in the Hellenistic Age.
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Cyberspace is the human transition into a mathematical super space where we as a collectivity become optionally a single point of view.
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The only real experience that counts, is your own.
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