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“The apocalypse is the millennium, and the psychedelics move you into the future.”

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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

“The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed. The present cultural crisis on the surface of the planet is caused by the fact that this is not a fitting theater for the exercise of imagination. It wrecks the planet. The planet has its own Eco-systemic dynamics, which are not the dynamics of imagination.”

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“A birth is a death. Everything you treasure, and believe in, and love, and relate to is destroyed for you when you leave the womb. And you are launched into another modality, a modality that perhaps you would not have chosen but that you cannot do anything about.”

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“It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind.”

Mind Becoming Understood

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“The only evil that associates itself with mushrooms is taking too little.”

Littles Evil Associates Mushrooms

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“Flying saucers are nothing more than miracles, and they occur essentially to bedevil science.”

Miracle Flying Flying Saucers

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“The drug may not be toxic, but you may be self-toxic, and you may discover this in the drug experience.”

May Self Drug Toxic

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“I think with the work we do with these drugs we are the earliest pioneers in what over the next 100 years will lead to an understanding of consciousness almost as a thing apart from the monkey body and brain.”

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“It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.”

People Advantage Strategy

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“Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human situation, new ideas are coming to the fore. Psilocybin is a selective filter for this. The wish to go to space is a selective filter for this. Just the wish to know your own mind is a selective filter for this.”

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