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Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
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Philosopher
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Terence Kemp McKenna
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LSD is different. LSD is like psychoanalytical Drano. It's not a personality.
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The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.
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Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there the path is known you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
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The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.
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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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The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a journey into the presence of the Gaian mind.
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In cyberspace things are built out of light.
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In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.
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In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.
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This is the nature of going forward into being: A series of self-transforming ascents of level.
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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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To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.
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One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic knowledge is available.
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It's meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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The engineers of the future will be poets.
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All of you who have been through high dose psychedelic experiences know that it's very hard to carry stupid baggage through that keyhole. In fact you're lucky if you just get your soul and yourselves through and intact.
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Ayahuasca, unlike mushrooms and all these other things is only as good as the person who made it. . . . The ayahuasca is a combinatory drug, and so it brings the human interaction and the lore of it into a much more central position.
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And science, when it examines psychedelics, as it will and must, is going to discover a revolution, I believe, that will put all the previous revolutions in perspective.
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Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas
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Our medium is meat, but we are made of information.
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