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MikeTesserect
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McKenna
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Why do people think Terrence McKenna worked for the CIA?
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Tmethyl
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It's just a bullshit idea that went around and doesn't seem to go away. He did not have any affiliation with the CIA whatsoever.
I'm not sure where the idea was born, though.
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MikeTesserect
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I was guessing because he was as smart and educated as he was trying to give psychedelics to the masses. Most people portray hippies as burn outs. Complete bullshit.
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Bill_Oreilly
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MikeTesserect said: Why do people think Terrence McKenna worked for the CIA?
Because they are stupid
-------------------- Something there is mysteriously formed, Existing before Heaven and Earth, Silent, still, standing alone, unchanging, All-pervading, unfailing, I do not know its name; I call it tao. If forced to give it a name, I call it Great (ta). Being great, it flows out; Flowing out means far-reaching; Being far-reaching, it is said to return. It's just a shot away..
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Tmethyl
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Bill_Oreilly
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Tmethyl said:

I didn't mean to sound harsh but its the truth!
-------------------- Something there is mysteriously formed, Existing before Heaven and Earth, Silent, still, standing alone, unchanging, All-pervading, unfailing, I do not know its name; I call it tao. If forced to give it a name, I call it Great (ta). Being great, it flows out; Flowing out means far-reaching; Being far-reaching, it is said to return. It's just a shot away..
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Because he said wacky things that could promote tail chasing.
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The Mycologist
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Hold on I will link the video, his wording is weird.
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The Mycologist
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Its in here somewhere, I cant find it at the moment. He mentions how he was recruited [By the aliens] right after talking about the CIA.
I understood what he meant fine.
-------------------- "That you are here—that life exists, and identity; That the powerful play goes on, and you will contribute a verse.” ― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

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Bill_Oreilly
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He says that the aliens recruited him.
He was asked again at his house and he says "not that i know of" when directly asked if he was in anyway involved with the CIA.
the video is around somewhere..forgive me if someone posted it already
-------------------- Something there is mysteriously formed, Existing before Heaven and Earth, Silent, still, standing alone, unchanging, All-pervading, unfailing, I do not know its name; I call it tao. If forced to give it a name, I call it Great (ta). Being great, it flows out; Flowing out means far-reaching; Being far-reaching, it is said to return. It's just a shot away..
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beforethedawn
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McKenna was far too empowering of the individual for US govt. to want him around.
"Radical freedom", the freedom to change the course of history if one gets it right, isn't in CIA interests . . .
Just my 2c
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AuroraBorealis88
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Psilosopherr said: Because he said wacky things that could promote tail chasing.
So have a lot of other people 
I assume it's solely because of McKenna's affiliation with psychedelics and the CIA's history with mind altering chemicals and other creepy phenomenological shit.
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