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“In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.”

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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 Internet is light at the end of the tunnel. I don't care if it's being used to peddle pornography, I don't care if it's being trivialized in a thousand ways. Anything can be trivialized. The important point is that it is leveling the playing field of global society. It is creating de-facto an entirely new set of political realities. None of the constipated, oligarchic structures that are resisting this were ever asked. Their greed betrayed them into investing in this in the first place without ever fully grasping what the implications of it were for their larger agenda.”

“The way out then is personal responsibility, new operating systems downloaded from outside of culture, which means from the deeper wisdom of the psychedelic plants and then a commitment to community and a motto of "To the future, without fear!" Without fear!”

Way Mean Culture Community Responsibility Commitment Plant Deeper Motto Personal Responsibility Psychedelic Operating Systems

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“The shaman is a person who is able to transcend the dimensional confines of cultural existence. They know more than the people they serve. The people they serve are like children within the game of culture. Only the shaman knows that culture is a game. Everyone else takes it seriously. That's how he can do his magic.”

People Knows Children Persons Able Culture Games Can Do Existence Magic

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“I discovered early in life a stunning truth that's made my life very complicated in its wake, but that I still think is true, and it's that people are very easy to love.”

People Thinking Made Stills Easy Complicated Stunning

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“Ayahuasca loves to take prideful people and rub their nose in it. I mean it can make you beg for mercy like nothing. You have to really approach it humbly.”

People Mean Approach Mercy Noses Ayahuasca

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“I'm meeting my obligations, somehow, always have, without ever truly working, without ever putting my shoulder to the wheel for the man. Of course I had to deal dope to do this!”

Men Courses Deals He Man Meetings Shoulders Obligation Wheels Dope

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“The party impulse is a very subversive impulse. I mean, you know, a lot of artists have too much integrity to sell their art as a brand; but who has so much integrity that they would turn down a party?”

Knows Mean Art Artist Turns Party Too Much Integrity Sells Brands Impulse Subversive

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“If you sit down with a person, or a watermelon for that matter, when you're stoned and sing into it, the quality of the hallucination is such that there is a way of thinking about it where you could say, 'This is an acoustical hologram of the interior of their body.'" I don't say that.I just say, "My goodness isn't it strange that I seem to be able to see inside of the watermelon when I'm doing this.'”

Ifs Thinking Way Persons Matter Body Seems Able Quality Strange Goodness Interiors Way Of Thinking Hallucinations Holograms

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“Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.”

Bits Television Drug Nevertheless

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“These things which are made of light and grammar and sound that come chirping and squealing and tumbling toward you. 'Hooray! Welcome! You're here!', and in my case, 'You send so many and you come so rarely!'”

Made Light Sound Cases Welcome Grammar Tumbling Squealing

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