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> Last night (Monday, April 3) at 2:30 AM Terence McKenna took his last
> breath and crossed over. He was surrounded by those he loved, although he
> didn't leave this plane until everyone had fallen asleep. Christie was by
> his side.
>
> In Dec. 1999 at Esalen Terence said:
>
> "Everything is a blessing and everything comes as a gift. And I don't
> regret anything about the situation I find myself in. If psychedelics
> don't ready you for the great beyond, then I don't know what really does.
> And we're all under sentence of 'moving up' at some point in our lives.
>
> I have an absolute faith that the universe prefers joy and distills us with
> joy. That is what religion is trying to download to us, and this is what
> every moment of life is trying to do-if we can open to it. And we
> psychedelic people, if we could secure that death has no sting, we would
> have done the greatest service to suffering intelligence that can be done.
>
> And I feel that death is close, and I feel strong because of this
> (psychedelic) community and these people and plants that it rests on, and
> the ancient practices that it rests on, and I am full of hope, not only for
> my own small problems, but for humanity in general."
>