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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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Terence McKenna

Terence McKenna was a renowned philosopher known for his profound insights into consciousness, botany, and human potential. His ideas were deeply influenced by his family's genetic research and studies on the evolution of human consciousness. more

“To my mind this makes psychedelics central to any political reconstruction, because these are the only force in nature that actually dissolve linguistics structures; lets the mechanics of syntax to be visible, allows the possibility for rapid introduction and spread of new concepts; gives permission for new ways of seeing; and this is what we have to do, we have to change our minds.”

Way Giving Mind Political Force Seeing Possibility Concepts Structure Spread Visible New Ways Permission Mechanic Rapids Introduction Linguistics Reconstruction Syntax

Author:Terence McKenna

“I am an old man, I just happen to be an old man that can fight.”

Men Happens Fighting Old Man

Author:Bernard Hopkins

“Maybe if we tell the truth about the past, we can tell the truth about the present.”

Ifs Truth Past Telling The Truth

Author:Ken Loach

“Despite the staunchest, most venerable defenses, we can never completely subdue death anxiety: it is always there, lurking in some hidden ravine of the mind.”

Mind Death Anxiety Defense Despite Lurking

Book:Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death

Source: Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death

“It's not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It's like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death's terror. We project ourselves into the future through our children; we grow rich, famous, ever larger; we develop compulsive protective rituals; or we embrace an impregnable belief in an ultimate rescuer.”

Source: Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death

“I feel strongly, because a man who will himself die one day in the not to distant future and, also, as a psychiatrist who spent decades dealing with death anxiety, that confronting death allows us, not to open some noisome, Pandora's box, but to re-enter life in a richer, more compassionate manner.”

Men Feels Death Dies One Day Anxiety Boxes Decades Compassionate Psychiatrist Confronting Pandora Dealing With Death Pandora's Box

Author:Irvin D. Yalom

“Death, however, does itch. It itches all the time. It is always with us, scratching at some inner door. Mirroring, softly, barely audibly, just under the membrane of consciousness. Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.”

Doe Death Consciousness Worry Doors Conflict Stress Variety Disguise Symptoms Mirroring Wellspring Membranes

Author:Irvin D. Yalom

“Death loses its terror if one dies when one has consummated one's life!”

Ifs Death Dies Loses Terror Life Death

Author:Irvin D. Yalom

“As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.”

Mind Looks Age Path Concern Old Age Decline Slopes

Book:Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death

Source: Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death

“Absolute power, as we have always known, corrupts absolutely; it corrupts because it does not do the trick for the individual. Reality always creeps in--the reality of our helplessness and our mortality; the reality that, despite our reach for the stars, a creaturely fate awaits us.”

Doe Reality Individual Stars Known Power Fate Absolutes Tricks Despite Mortality Creeps Helplessness Absolute Power

Book:Existential Psychotherapy

Source: Existential Psychotherapy

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