I just feel like I have to make a post here saying THANK YOU to the dead Terence Mckenna. His wisdom has changed me so much and given me so much. Anyways this is just a humble post, I hope others feel the same as me. Much love, Walter The Unknown = A Place to Learn
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For sure. He was a genius in his own right. I still enjoy listening to his talks everynow and again. Wish he was still here to continue and evolve his theories. I am proud to say that we are up next and will continue burning a righteous path toward the clarity and understanding of psychedelics and human psychology for that matter. "Think more than you speak"
"How do you get rid of the pain of having pain in the first place? You get rid of expectations"
"You are everything that is. Open yourself to the love and understanding that is available."
"To see God, you have to have met the Devil."
"When you know how to listen, everyone becomes a guru."
" One time, I didn't do anything, and it was so empty... Almost as if I wasn't doing anything. Then I wrote about it. It was fulfilling."
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Indeed, would love to meet a representation of him in hyperspace whether as a construct of my own mind or otherwise.. RPIH (rest peacefully in hyperspace) Terrence.
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I have been reading all his books in reverse order and just finished The Invisible Landscape, really some pretty amazing stuff in there. My favorite book is still True Hallucinations, definitely in my top five books of all time. Archaic Revival is also pretty awesome. Although I don't agree with everything Terence says I appreciate the fact he spoke with conviction, and opened a lot of peoples eyes to the power of psychedelics.
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I have wanted to make a thread like this bout a month ago, must have forgotten it by now. I'm saddened by the fact i can never meet T. Mckenna in person. He's such a nice, friendly personality, and pretty cool imo. Terence Mckenna was one hip geek.  He's been a guiding force in my early psychedelic explorations. I've seen him in all sorts of shapes and forms in hallucinations. His words echo through my mind, on one of the heaviest trip i've been through. Not to show-off or anything. I haven't seen a trace of him in quite a while now. Things have changed. That's why i miss him. One i've never actually met, and died before i ever heared of him. I'll actually thank him when i reach the other side  Good guy! Much love
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Wish I could have met him , I love the guy . His lectures are amazing and Inspiring . The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke http://vimeo.com/32001208
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yesssssssssssssss illusions !, there are no illusions
there is only that which is the truth
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Felnik wrote:Wish I could have met him , I love the guy . His lectures are amazing and
Inspiring .
Yes  The Unknown = A Place to Learn
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not many ppl have had such a positive impact on my life as him, a great man with a gift providing such a powerful guiding force towards the right direction, the world is a better place because of him he might not physically be here but his spirit lives on, much love terence! 
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Terence was indeed a great speaker. His books have influenced me in many positive ways. "It permits you to see, more clearly than our perishing mortal eye can see, vistas beyond the horizons of this life, to travel backwards and forwards in time, to enter other planes of existence, even (as the Indians say) to know God." R. Gordon Wasson
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Yeah, I was listening to one of his talks just last night. 2 things I love about him 1 - There was never a question that was too outrageous to ask 2 - He never claimed to have all the answers, mostly just some really good questions. There was a definite light heartedness to his rap that I think was missing from someone like Leary or even Alan Watts. Hopefully he's riding the carrier wave through a hyperdimensional funhouse and enjoying the ride immensely. Images of broken light,
Which dance before me like a million eyes,
They call me on and on...
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Every time I hear that voice it takes me to a special place  I would have probably discovered the Spice without him, but after a failed attempt at smoking Yopo in high school I lost interest in the molecule. It was Terrance who eventually turned me back on and led me to one of the most beautiful experiences in life, not to mention the greatest web page of all time! Thanks. 'Little spider weaves a wispy web, stumblin' through the woods it catches to my head. She crawls behind my ear and whispers secrets. Dragonfly whiz by and sings now teach it.'
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Yes Terence Mckenna did have a humor that was largely misunderstood, but I enjoy it very much. Mostly every speech I listen to will have me cracking up. The Unknown = A Place to Learn
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I think you'll like this one like I do: steppa attached the following image(s):  2013-06-18-mckenna.jpg (1,315kb) downloaded 97 time(s).Everything is always okay in the end, if it's not, then it's not the end.
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You know, years before I first had the opportunity to try psychedelics (psilocybin mushrooms, to be exact), it was some writings I discovered on the internet by Terence McKenna that really made me want to trip. I'd had a (somewhat terrifying) first encounter with ego death/separation (though I didn't yet know that's what it was called) while meditating a few years before that, and just couldn't willingly get myself over that hump (and after a time, stopped meditating almost altogether). I was fascinated by his descriptions of DMT, and that's when I first learned what ego death was and recognized that's essentially what I experienced during deep meditation. That's when I first knew I'd have to take psychedelics one day. On my second mushroom trip, I finally got to experience true ego death (and I was quite ready for it this time). During that timeless moment, my friend played a Sphongle track titled "A New Way to Say Hooray", and I heard Terence describing the DMT experience. A few month's later, I was doing my first mimosa extraction. So yeah, had it not been for Terence McKenna's passion for psychedelics and DMT, I wouldn't be here typing this today(and spiritually, I'd be poorer for it). BTW, I'm totally stealing that comic. 
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