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Safety is really a concern of mine, and what I've been telling people recently is that until there's animal and human data on a drug it should probably be looked at very carefully.

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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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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I believe reality is a marvelous joke staged for my edification and amusement and everybody is working very hard to make me happy.
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My hope is that I may bear witness to the fact that there is a great mystery calling to us all, beckoning across the landscape of our history, promising to realize itself and to give real meaning to what is otherwise only the confusion of our lives and our collective past.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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