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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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Information is just simply bootstrapping itself to higher and higher levels of self-reflection and self-coordination using whatever means are necessary.
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History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.
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A great turning point is in the offing. The world is changing. It's changed before, but not for a long time in our lives, not since before our lives. But now it's changing, and there are many many possibilities.
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The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a journey into the presence of the Gaian mind.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding The strangeness seems to be accelerating.
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The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.
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What we now have is the freedom which attends decadence, or the decadence which attends freedom.
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But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.
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