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Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.

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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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Terence Kemp McKenna
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We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.
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I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
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I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’ll meet you there
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