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The mind is a far bigger domain than we ever imagined.

Terence McKenna

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
Ethnobotanist
Philosopher
Writer
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Terence Kemp McKenna
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Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.
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What is needed, is an awakening.
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If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.
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By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence.
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