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“I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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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