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“Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.”

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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

“It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . . And that this is how culture moves forward. That culture is a phenomenon dependent on the generation of ideas, plans, notions, connections. So this is precisely what these compounds are doing.”

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“What is always left out of descriptions of the psychedelic state, the deep psychedelic state, is how weird it is.”

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“I finally realized that this 'place' that I kept bursting into [on a psychedelic experience] was somebody's idea of a playpen.”

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“We [psychonauts] are all going to go into the books as pioneers, because it's too early for us to be anything else. There's no map, no finished database, just anecdotes of the crazy, crazy stuff that goes on. That's why it's so important to try and share [our stories].”

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“This is a very central part of the psychedelic attitude toward the world, to entertain all possibilities but to never commit to belief. Belief always being seen as a kind of trap, because if you belief something you are forever precluded from believing its opposite.”

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“In a sense, sexuality is the built-in psychedelic experience that only a very few people manage to evade.”

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