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“One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.”

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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

“We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being dropped into our laps for us to create human-machine interfacing, control of genetic material, redefinition of social reality, re engineering of languages, revisioning of the planetary ecology, all these things fall upon us.”

Years Mind Humans Reality Fall Language Social Fields Materials Thousand Ten Machines Fruit Fifty Engineering Thousand Years Ecology Lap Sowing

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“I'm fascinated by hallucinations. I mean, to me that is the sina qua non that you're getting somewhere.”

Mean Fascinated Hallucinations

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“If you actually look at the etymology of the word 'hallucination', what it's come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That's the meaning of 'hallucination', to wander in the mind.”

Ifs Mind Looks Mean Language Originals Wander Delusion Really Mean Hallucinations Etymology

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“For unknown reasons, there is a tremendous concentration of psychoactive plants on the South American continent. The South American continent has more known hallucinogens than the rest of the planet combined.”

Reason Known Planets Plant South Concentration Continents Hallucinogens

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“Patanjali specifically says that there are three paths to the goal of yoga. And they are, control of the breath, control of posture, and light-filled herbs. It says it right there. Stanza 6 of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.”

Light Three Goal Path Yoga Breaths Filled Herbs Posture Yoga Sutra

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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.”

Thinking Kind Moments Form Grows Religious Memories Notion Psychedelic Rite Psychedelic Experience

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“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

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