Terence McKenna
Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
"Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone."
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Terence McKenna
Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
"One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness."
Terence McKenna
Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
"Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism."
Terence McKenna
Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
"The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along."
Terence McKenna
Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
"Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy."
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"I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism."
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"Exorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through."
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"Shamanism is just show business and philosophy is just a branch of that vaudevillian impulse."
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