Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. Thats what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the thou shalts and thou should, but rather a recovery of the real ambiguity of being and an ability to see ourselves as at once powerful and weak, noble and ignoble, future-oriented, past-facing.
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Terence McKenna was a 20th-century American ethnobotanist, lecturer, and writer. Terence Kemp McKenna was an American philosopher, ethnobotanist, lecturer, and author who advocated for the responsible use of naturally occurring psychedelic plants and mushrooms. He spoke and wrote about a variety of subjects, including psychedelic drugs, plant-based entheogens, shamanism, metaphysics, alchemy, language, philosophy, culture, technology, ethnomycology, environmentalism, and the theoretical origins of human consciousness. Read more on Wikipedia →