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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.

Terence McKenna

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.
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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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Human history is a Gaian dream.
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Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.
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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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Flying saucers are nothing more than miracles, and they occur essentially to bedevil science.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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