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Terence McKenna — Portrait after a picture by Entropath (CC BY-SA 3.0), via Wikimedia Commons. This drawing is shared under the same licence.

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Terence McKenna

American ethnobotanist and mystic

1946–2000

4 quotes.

Progress of human civilization in the area of defining human freedom is not made from the top down. No king, no parliament, no government ever extended to the people more rights than the people insisted upon.
“True Hallucinations” (1993)
- Freedom
- Government
Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
Psychedelic Society (1984)
The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
“Alien Dreamtime” a multimedia event recorded live. (27 February 1993)
- Talking
I think people have a very narrow conception of what is possible with reality, that we’re surrounded by the howling abyss of the unknowable and nobody knows what’s out there.
Spacetime Tsunami, Interview with Carla Sinclair, bOING bOING #10.
- Knowledge

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