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“To say the Constitution is living is to say that it's dead.”

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Thomas Sowell is a renowned economist, born on June 30, 1930. His research spans across various fields such as economic policy, race, and social issues, having a profound impact on economics and the social sciences. more

“Actually, the highest form of human organization is not realized in the democratic individual. It is realized in a dimension none of us have ever penetrated, which is the mind of the species, which is actually the hand at the tiller of history. . . . It is an organized entelechy of some sort, and human history is its signature on the primates.”

Mind Humans Hands Form Individual Highest Organization Democratic Species Organized Dimensions Human History Signatures Primates

Author:Terence McKenna

“I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off. You either love them or you hate them, and that's because they dissolve world views. And if you like the experience of having your entire ontological structure disappear out from under you, if you think that's a thrill, you'll probably love psychedelics.”

People Ifs Thinking World Hate Views Structure Disappear Sheer Thrill World View Hallucinogens

Author:Terence McKenna

“We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of so much power that we now must understand what we are. We cannot travel much further with the definitions of man that we inherit from the Judeo-Christian tradition. We need to truly explore the problem of consciousness.”

Men Needs Mind Humans Problem Christian Consciousness Taken Areas Tradition Definitions Human Mind Forbidden Machinery Acquisition

Author:Terence McKenna

“The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.”

Thinking Way Imagination Catalyst

Author:Terence McKenna

“And yet my, not only my faith, but my experience has led me to believe that the world is not a construction of space and time and matter and energy. That that mapping is insufficient. That the world is instead some kind of a linguistic construct. It is more in the nature of a sentence, or a novel, or a work of art than it is in the nature of these machine models of interlocking law that we inherit out of a thousand years of rational reductionism.”

“It seems to me that information is the thing which uses matter, uses light, uses spirit, uses whatever it can put its hands on to organize itself into higher and higher levels of self-reflection.”

Self Matter Use Hands Light Seems Spirit Levels Information Higher Reflection Organize Self Reflection Higher Level

Author:Terence McKenna

“It's meanings that we need to coax into our lives.”

Needs Our Lives

Author:Terence McKenna

“And the whole schtick of the psychedelic experience, I think, is reclaim immediate experience, realize that you out vote all parliaments, police forces, and major newspapers on the planet because, who knows, they may be illusions.”

Thinking Knows May Whole Force Realizing Planets Majors Illusion Vote Police Newspapers Parliament Psychedelic Psychedelic Experience Police Force

Author:Terence McKenna

“The world could be anything, you know, It could be a solid state matrix of some sort. It could be an illusion. It could be a dream. I mean it really could be a dream.”

Knows World Mean States Dream Illusion

Author:Terence McKenna

“In cyberspace things are built out of light.”

Light Built Cyberspace

Author:Terence McKenna

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