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The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
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Terence Kemp McKenna
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If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn't worth the hemp it was written on.
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Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.
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It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.
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We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum the world is something we make through the act of perception.
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Our task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate.
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A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.
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We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects...All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate tool.
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We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being dropped into our laps for us to create human-machine interfacing, control of genetic material, redefinition of social reality, re engineering of languages, revisioning of the planetary ecology, all these things fall upon us.
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Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.
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What is needed, is an awakening.
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