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The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
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Terence Kemp McKenna
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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.
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How do we fight back? By creating art.
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Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.
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I think that's the job of each of us - to show our best toys and our best tricks that lift us and our friends to higher and higher levels. There is no end to this bootstrapping process. The future of the human mind and body and the future of humans together is endlessly bright.
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Actually, the highest form of human organization is not realized in the democratic individual. It is realized in a dimension none of us have ever penetrated, which is the mind of the species, which is actually the hand at the tiller of history. . . . It is an organized entelechy of some sort, and human history is its signature on the primates.
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For all we know, we know nothing.
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