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The only real experience that counts, is your own.

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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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Let's not underrate cannabis, for cryin' out loud. Cannabis should be the glue of the community.
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We can't sell short the spiritual power of cannabis, especially when eaten.
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Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.
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Without sounding too cliché, the Internet really is the birth of some kind of global mind.
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Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean.
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Right here and now, one quanta away, there is raging a universe of active intelligence that is transhuman, hyperdimensional, and extremely alien... What is driving religious feeling today is a wish for contact with this other universe.
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Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?
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