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Terence McKenna’s nine remarks on years ago give a succinct view of how a philosopher‑author contemplates the echo of earlier experiences, cultural shifts, and the mind’s journey.

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We are living in a state of constant scientific revolution. There is not a single area that you can name that is…

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Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing…

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The sensory ratios that are being reinforced by the new electronic technology are like the sensory ratios that were in place fifteen…

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And certainly when I reached La Chorerra in 1971 I had a price on my head by the FBI, I was running…

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Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until…

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Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men…

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“Our estrangement from nature and the unconscious became entrenched roughly two thousand years ago, during the shift from the Age of the…

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“The global triumph of Western values means we, as a species, have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the…

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“History is ending because the dominator culture has led the human species into a blind alley, and as the inevitable chaostrophie approaches,…

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History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.

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We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the…

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The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Just as the history of yourself that you…

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We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.

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What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense…

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What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.

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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.

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Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types…

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