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Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order.
Terence McKenna
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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.
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What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.
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