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Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas

Terence McKenna

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
Ethnobotanist
Philosopher
Writer
Paonia
Colorado
Terence Kemp McKenna
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Ideas
Good
World

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Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!
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I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.
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You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your purpose? To add to the complexity. Your enemy? Disorder, entropy, stupidity, and tastelessness.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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I don't believe that shamanism without hallucinogens is authentic shamanism or comfortable shamanism.
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We are living in a state of constant scientific revolution. There is not a single area that you can name that is now seen as it was seen a hundred years ago. Nothing is left of the world view of one hundred years ago.
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