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'Drugs' and psychedelics are not two members of a family, they are antithetically opposed to each other. The pro-psychedelic position is an anti-drug position.
Terence McKenna
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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.
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The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.
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We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.
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I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky.
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What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.
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