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If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.
Terence McKenna
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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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It is curious that what these psychedelics do, on a scale of a community, is they release new ideas. . . . And that this is how culture moves forward. That culture is a phenomenon dependent on the generation of ideas, plans, notions, connections. So this is precisely what these compounds are doing.
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We are led by the least among us - the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary.
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I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky.
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Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.
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I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.
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Culture as we're practicing it is causing a lot of pain.
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Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness. . . . Would that we could send robots who could film these psychedelic realities. . . . The presence of so much beauty is an argument to me that truth cannot be far away.
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No one knows enough to worry.
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A singularity is a place where the rules are broken. A miracle is a singularity.
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