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Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
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What the churches are peddling is high abstraction, and you really have to work yourself up into a lather to be able to accept that as worthy of that kind of attention. The psychedelic subset of society is into an experience, and it's accessible.
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The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Just as the history of yourself that you don't know is what your personal unconscious is made out of.
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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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I'm not an advocate of drugs. I'm an advocate of psychedelics.
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