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The immediate future of man lies in the imagination and in seeking the dimension where the imagination can be expressed.

Terence McKenna

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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Without sounding too cliché, the Internet really is the birth of some kind of global mind.
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Memory training is great psychedelic training.
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That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with.
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I have a skeptical and cranky side, and I'm forever puzzled why people believe the, seeming to me, dumb things that they choose to believe.
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The testimony of DMT, for me, is that there is a nearby dimension, teeming with intelligences, that from one of the more conservative perspectives seems like an ecology of souls.
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