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The only real experience that counts, is your own.

Terence McKenna

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
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Philosopher
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Terence Kemp McKenna
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The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.
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The real nature of our predicament is completely opaque to us.
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