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“There is nobody who is so enlightened that they don't need to work on themselves.”

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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

“Time is a topological manifold. It is a surface. Events flow across it like water over land and like water flowing over land, when the land is flat, the water becomes reflective and moves slowly. When the landscape becomes disrupted, the water moves faster and chaotic attractors appear and new kinds of activity emerge and out of that new activity, there comes the new states that define the future.”

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Author:Terence McKenna

“The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers-by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work-is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility.”

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Book:Little Essays Toward Truth

Source: Little Essays Toward Truth

“There exists in nature a force which is immeasurably more powerful than steam, and by means of which a single man, who knows how to adapt and direct it, might upset and alter the face of the world.”

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Book:Transcendental Magic

Source: Transcendental Magic

“We want freedom. We want freedom from the constraints of the cycles of the sun and the moon. We want freedom from drought and weather, freedom from the movement of game, the growth of plants, freedom from control from mendacious popes and kings, freedom from ideology, freedom from want. This idea of freeing ourselves has become the compass of the human journey.”

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Author:Terence McKenna

“Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.”

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Author:Terence McKenna

“My hope is that I may bear witness to the fact that there is a great mystery calling to us all, beckoning across the landscape of our history, promising to realize itself and to give real meaning to what is otherwise only the confusion of our lives and our collective past.”

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Author:Terence McKenna

“All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it.”

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Author:Richard P. Feynman

“The same protection you create for yourself becomes the wall that imprisons you.”

Wall Protection

Author:Tony Robbins

“There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again.”

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Author:Clint Eastwood

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