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• This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all about, we are edge-walking on an ontological transformation of what it means to be human.

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  Mean, Drug, Facts

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• Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse.

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  Philosophy, Branches, Shamanism

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• Reality itself is not static. This is one of the things that the psychedelic is trying to put across, that the reality we're embedded in is itself some kind of an organism and is evolving toward a conclusion.

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  Reality, Trying, Psychedelic

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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• Television, introduced at the close of World War II, has become a form of electronic heroin, and it isn't even your trip. They don't even let you go on your own trip, you get a trip designed by Madison Avenue.

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  War, Goes On, Television

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• One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.

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  Mental Illness, Absence, Shamanism

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• The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.

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  Manipulation, Prey

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• I think that what these psychedelics do, is they actually do connect you to the whole circle. You stand outside of the moment from which you embarked on your psychedelic experience, and you see eternity like a vast landscape deployed in front of you. So what I think psychedelics are is they're about time, and they somehow make all time co-present.

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  Thinking, Circles, Landscape

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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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  World, Mystery, Problem

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• Cultural conditioning is like bad software. Over and over it's diddled with and re-written so that it can just run on the next attempt. But there is cultural hardware, and it's that cultural hardware, otherwise known as authentic being, that we are propelled toward by the example of the shaman and the techniques of the shaman. ... Shamanism therefore is a call to authenticity.

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  Running, Technique, Example

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• For me it's an issue of are we afraid of ourselves? And we inherit a huge bunch of idealogical baggage, not only Christianity, but Freudianism, and Marxism . . . We inherit all kinds of idealogical baggage designed to make us fear ourselves.

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  Issues, Baggage, Kind

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• The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in an atmosphere of continuous unfolding of understanding, so that every day you know more and see into things with greater depth than you did before. This is a process of education.

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  Understanding, Atmosphere, Trying

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• I think our intelligence is a source of toxicity to nature and discomfort to ourselves unless our values are based on planetary values, are linked to the values of the rest of nature. Intelligence is not a license to trample. The proper role of intelligence in a planetary ecology is that of gardener, caregiver and maintainer of balance.

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  Thinking, Balance, Roles

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• I sort of see [cannabis] as the pilot light of Gian consciousness.

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  Light, Pilots, Consciousness

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• If you charge off with some political agenda that is not informed by clarity, you are going to end up with business as usual. The road to hell is paved with good intentions but it is not paved with clarity.

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  Political, Usual, Agendas

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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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  Life, Religious, Feelings

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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• A lot of people pass through the thinking I'm a guru and take enough trips to understand that no, I was just a witness. I was just a witness.

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  Thinking, People, Enough

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• Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.

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  Taken, Marijuana, Psychosis

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• The momentum now is inevitable. Now it's about each of us individually arranging the furniture of our own mind to deal with what has become inevitable.

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  Mind, Momentum, Furniture

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• Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness. . . . Would that we could send robots who could film these psychedelic realities. . . . The presence of so much beauty is an argument to me that truth cannot be far away.

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  Reality, Ordinary, Robots

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• The human imagination, in conjunction with technology, has become a force so potent that it really can no longer be unleashed on the surface of the planet with safety.

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  Technology, Safety, Imagination

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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• People are concrescences of ambiguity.

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  People, Ambiguity

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• Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.

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  Believe, Belief, Form

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• Our culture takes us out of the body and sells our loyalty into political systems, into religions, into inanimate objects and machines, collections, so forth and so on. The felt experience of the body is what the psychedelics are handing back to us.

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  Loyalty, Political, Inanimate Objects

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• We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.

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  May, Monkeys, Consciousness

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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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  Men, Made, Unconscious

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