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“These religions that are so freighted with their own pomposity are no better than inspired guesses.”

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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

“In other words, all these things you might cling to, Catholicism, democratic ideals, Hasidism, Marxism, Freudianism, all of these things are exposed [through use of psychedelics] as simply quaint cultural artifacts, painted masks and rattles assembled by people of good intent but clearly not great grasp of the situation.”

People Use Might Situation Ideals Democratic Mask Catholicism Exposed Marxism Artifacts Quaint Democratic Ideals

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“For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model of what the world is.”

World Years Reality Models Psychedelic

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“And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.”

Felt Data Primaries

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“We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being.”

Needs Metaphor

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“Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.”

Years Long Two Whole Together Guy Fine Hundred Shots Built Years Ago Institutions Wigs Tuning Long Shots Fine Tuning

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“Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.”

Humans Technology Species Interaction Human Species

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“As I see it, Being, the Cosmos, whatever you want to call it, is a struggle between two implacable forces: Novelty on the one side and habit on the other side.”

Want Two Force Sides Struggle Habit Cosmos Novelty

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“The sensory ratios that are being reinforced by the new electronic technology are like the sensory ratios that were in place fifteen thousand years ago. . . . Print imposes a condition on human mind which is now lifting.”

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“History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.”

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