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• Our task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate.

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  Tasks, Memes, Replicate

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• The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous.

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  Life, Animal, Ridiculous

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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• What is the psychedelic experience? What promise does it hold for a sane future for our planet and our children? And what is it about it that kindles the kind of loyalty that I feel coming from the people in this room this evening? And I submit to you that it is nothing less than the rebirth of a voice that has been silent for at least a thousand years, the still small voice of the Logos of the planet.

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  Loyalty, Children, Years

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• What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings, which has always been a great puzzle to evolutionary theory, I believe, occurred in the presence of a kind of catalyst for the human imagination.

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  Believe, Imagination, Expansion

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• If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new community that is wider and deeper than you know. The people who are building the new machines, who are designing the new circuitry, who are writing the new code are ALL freaks. They work for capitalist dogs, of course, because we all do, but the creative thrust of these technologies is being driven by people just like you and me.

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  Dog, Writing, Technology

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• What is needed, is an awakening.

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  Awakening, Needed

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• The shaman has access to a superhuman dimension and a superhuman condition, and by being able to do that he affirms the potential for transcendence in all people. He is an exemplar, if you will.

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  People, Able, Dimensions

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• I think what's really happening is that a dialogue opens up between the ego and these larger, more integrated parts of the psyche that are normally hidden from view.

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  Thinking, Views, Ego

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• The thing is that it is incredibly frustrating to anyone who would control it, because you can't predict the impact of any technology before you put it in place.

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  Technology, Impact, Frustrating

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• Psychedelics are actually a kind of miraculous reality that can stand the test of objective examination.

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  Reality, Examination, Tests

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• Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come to terms with the fact that those apes were stoned apes.

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  Mind Blowing, Apes, Facts

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• 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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  Democratic Ideals, People, Might

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• The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.

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  Imagination, World, Body

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• So when you look at the eschaton what you see, strangely enough, is your own face.

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  Looks, Faces, Enough

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• We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place.

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  Dmt, Long, Mind Blowing

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• I'm proposing on one level that hallucinogens be thought of as almost as social pheromones that regulate the rate at which language develops, and therefore regulate human culture generally.

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  Culture, Pheromones, Levels

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• But a mature humanity could get into a place where we no longer required these metaphysical spankings from messiahs and flying saucers that come along every thousand years or so to mess up the mess that has been created and try and send people off on another tack. And the way to do this is to look at the abysses that confront man as species and individuals and try to unify them. And I think that psilocybin offers a way out because it allows a dialogue with the over-mind. You won't read about it in "Scientific American" or anywhere else. You will carry it out.

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  Men, Thinking, Years

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• It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.

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  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• There is a belief that there is a hyperobject called Overmind, or God, that casts a shadow into time. History is our group experience if this shadow. As one draws closer and closer to the source of the shadow, the paradoxes intensify, the rate of change intensifies. What is happening is that the hyperobject is beginning to ingress into three-dimensional space.

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  Space, Shadow, Groups

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• The thing that seemed to me so important about the psychedelic experience was that it happened to me. I wasn't reading John Chrysostom or Meister Eckhart. And so I assumed that I am a very ordinary person, therefore, if it happened to me it could happen to anyone.

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  Reading, Important, Ordinary

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• A history-stopping archetype is being released into the skies of this planet, and if we are not careful it will halt all intellectual inquiry in the same way that the Christos archetype halted intellectual inquiry in the Hellenistic Age.

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  Sky, Intellectual, Age

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• What I always hoped for out of the psychedelic voyaging was to bring back something. I always felt, and still feel, that that is the attitude with which you should go into these things.

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  Attitude, Psychedelic, Should

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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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  Attitude, Believe, Opposites

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• Our self discoveries make us each a microcosm of the larger pattern of history. The inertia of introspection leads toward recollection, for only through memory is the past recaptured and understood. In the fact of experiencing and making the present, we are all actors.

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  Memories, Past, Discovery

  Terence McKenna (1998). “True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival”, M J F Books

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• DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen there is. If it gets stronger than that I don't want to know about it.

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  Powerful, Dmt, Stronger

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