You need an ego. If you didn't have an ego, you wouldn't know whose mouth to put food in when eating in a restaurant. - Terence McKenna

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You need an ego. If you didn't have an ego, you wouldn't know whose mouth to put food in when eating in a restaurant.

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About Terence McKenna

Terence Kemp McKenna (November 16, 1946 – April 3, 2000) was an American writer, philosopher, and ethnobotanist, who advocated paths of shamanism, and the use of hallucinogenic substances (primarily plant-based psychedelics) as a means of increasing many forms of human awareness. His ideas often revolve around his novelty theory of the universe.

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Native Name: Terence Kempes McKenna
Alternative Names: Terence Kemp McKenna
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The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying will not create confusion in the psyche.

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. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a feather bed.

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Mystery is alive in the moment, in the here and now. It just simply lies on the other side of a barrier of courage.

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