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Terence McKenna [1946-2000] American

Rank: 102
Writer, Ethnobotanist

Terence Kemp McKenna was an American ethnobotanist, mystic, psychonaut, lecturer, author, and an advocate for the responsible use of naturally occurring psychedelic plants.

History, Imagination

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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.		101
There are times when everything seems to go right, and times when everything seems to go wrong.		102
History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across the planet very quickly. But that mind in man just goes back and back into the darkness.	History	103
The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.	Imagination	104
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.		105
Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around. An extremely yang solution to a peculiar problem which they faced.		106
Nature conserves, prefers novelty.		107
Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.		108
That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with.		109
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.		110
In fact, I think when we carry out a complete analysis of time, I think what we're going to discover is that like matter, time is composed of elemental, discrete types.		111
I live up at about the 2000 feet level on a five acre piece of forest that I built a small house on.		112

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