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Terence McKenna
Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

"Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong."

Terence McKenna
Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

"You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness."

Terence McKenna
Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer

"DMT is a reliable method for crossing in to a dimension that human beings have debated the existence of for 50.000 years. Is there an invisible nearby world inhabited by active intelligences with which human beings can communicate? You bet. And if you don't think so, then tell me you don't think so after you've smoked 75mg DMT. Otherwise we just don't have anything to talk about."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominant archetype of our world, which is Ego, which clenches because its existence is defined in terms of control."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"The testimony of DMT, for me, is that there is a nearby dimension, teeming with intelligences, that from one of the more conservative perspectives seems like an ecology of souls."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know... You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You'll have that!"

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"If you go to Paris you know more about reality than people who don't. If you smoke DMT you know more about reality than people who don't."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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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."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"The whole of the Amazonian narcotic complex, as it's called in the old literature, is based on activation of DMT by one strategy or another."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"[DMT] raises all the questions in a hurry. It's so intense and so oriented toward the other and the visual and the hallucinogenic that it isn't really like a drug. It's more like an event that you ran into. You just came around a corner and there was the unspeakable."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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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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