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We can will the perfect future into being by becoming microcosms of the perfect future.
Terence McKenna
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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
Ethnobotanist
Philosopher
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Paonia
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Terence Kemp McKenna
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