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I connect the psychedelic dimension to the dimension of inspiration and dream.

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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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The psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it.
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The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.
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Even a billion people is too much. There's no way back to the simplicity we once knew, but there may be a way forward to the simplicity that we once knew.
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