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A singularity is a place where the rules are broken. A miracle is a singularity.

Terence McKenna

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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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Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.
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Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants
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Terror of the future can be put out to pasture with psychedelic shamanism.
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Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.
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Without sounding too cliché, the Internet really is the birth of some kind of global mind.
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