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History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.

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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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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.
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To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.
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Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made.
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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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We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.
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The message coming back at all of us is: live without closure.
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It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.
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To carry language from two dimensions into three is the task of the poets, and the rebels in the 20th Century.
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And so, these are the things, the exploration of which, the singing about of which, makes us human beings. The exploration of the universe of the unseen is the business of human beings.
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