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“Think about this for a moment, we grow so inured to these religious forms, think about the notion of instituting at the center of your religion a rite where you eat your god is probably a memory of a relationship to some kind of a psychedelic experience of some sort.”

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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

“I think institutions will inevitably substitute a rite or a ritual for the authentic, for the real McCoy, because then priests can control the pipeline to god, and the parishioner can approach with offerings. But if everybody can have a pipeline to deity, why then the whole priest scam is put out of business.”

Ifs Thinking Real Whole Approach Institutions Priests Substitutes Ritual Offering Deities Rite Pipeline Scams

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“Buddhism is a heresy on Hinduism. It was Hinduism that did the dirty work for Buddhism, by the time Buddha came along priest-craft was an ancient tradition in India.”

Buddhism Tradition India Ancient Crafts Dirty Priests Hinduism Heresy Dirty Work

Author:Terence McKenna

“The whole of the Amazonian narcotic complex, as it's called in the old literature, is based on activation of DMT by one strategy or another.”

Whole Literature Strategy Complexes Narcotics Dmt Activation

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“I really think there is a very large distinction between synthetic and naturally occurring drugs. ... I think that these plants 'take people' as much as people take the plants. ... When you take one of these ancient, ancient hallucinogens you are locking in to the morphogenetic fields of all the people who ever took it.”

People Thinking Fields Drug Plant Ancient Distinction Synthetic Hallucinogens

Author:Terence McKenna