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Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
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By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.
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If you actually look at the etymology of the word 'hallucination', what it's come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That's the meaning of 'hallucination', to wander in the mind.
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