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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
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Terence Kemp McKenna
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For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe, the absurdity of that assertion would be self-evident, but in our case we make an exception.
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Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.
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The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.
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Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.
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No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night.
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When we really understand time travel we may find out it's as common as dirt and has been going on all around us is all kinds of physical processes.
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Without sounding too cliché, the Internet really is the birth of some kind of global mind.
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And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.
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We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being dropped into our laps for us to create human-machine interfacing, control of genetic material, redefinition of social reality, re engineering of languages, revisioning of the planetary ecology, all these things fall upon us.
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