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“DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic.”

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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

“What I'm talking about is actually is the Mystery of Being as existential fact. That there is something that haunts this world that can take apart and reduce every single one of us to a mixture of terror and ecstasy, fear and trembling. It is not an idea, that's the primary thing to bear in mind. It's an experience.”

World Mind Ideas Facts Talking Mystery This World Bears Terror Primaries Ecstasy Existential Mixtures Trembling

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“Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.”

Needs Facts Theory Make Sense

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“What we call three dimensional space, and what we call the imagination actually have a contiguous and continuous transformation from one into the other, ... and THIS is big news!”

Bigs Three Imagination Space News Transformation Big News

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“If you play the cultural game, it's like playing only with clubs or something, or playing only with the red marked cards. You have to play with a full deck, and that includes this pre-linguistic surround in which we are embedded.”

Ifs Play Games Red Clubs Cards Surround Embedded Deck

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“Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality.”

Thinking May Higher Psychedelic Manifold Psychedelic Experience Temporality

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“The mind is the cutting edge of the evolving event system.”

Mind Cutting Events Edges Evolve Cutting Edge

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“I think the cybernetic matrix is a tremendous tool for feminizing, and radicalizing, and psychedelicizing the social matrix. I see computers as entirely feminine.”

Thinking Social Computer Tools Feminine

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“The 'person' is not an interchangeable part. The 'citizen' is. ... The person is harking back to a pre-print model. It's what the hippies were.”

Persons Citizens Models Print Hippie

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“What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.”

People World Lsd Freaky

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