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Terence McKenna

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What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.


— Terence McKenna


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I live up at about the 2000 feet level on a five acre piece of forest that I built a small house on.


— Terence McKenna


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Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.


— Terence McKenna


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Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.


— Terence McKenna


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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.


— Terence McKenna


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What is unusual about Earth is that language, literally, has become alive. It has infested matter. It is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us.


— Terence McKenna


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There are times when everything seems to go right, and times when everything seems to go wrong.


— Terence McKenna


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The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.


— Terence McKenna


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The discs which haunt the skies of Earth indicate that the unconscious cannot be kept waiting forever. These things are going to have to be dealt with.


— Terence McKenna


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That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with.


— Terence McKenna


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When he later discovered that the end of the 13th baktun in the Maya Calendar had been correlated by Western Maya scholars with December 21 not far from his own hypothesized end date he decided that the Maya were more likely to be right on this subject and he adopted their end date. All these factors according to McKenna were the most important factors that promoted evolution towards the Homo sapiens species. He was introduced to geology through his uncle and developed a hobby of solitary fossil hunting in the arroyos near his home.

He was noted for his knowledge and the ability to articulate his knowledge of the use of psychedelics metaphysics plant-based entheogens and subjects ranging from shamanism language historical and civilizational timelines the theoretical origins of human consciousness and his concept of novelty theory. Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16 1946 – April 3 2000) was an American ethnobotanist philosopher psychonaut researcher teacher lecturer and writer.

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