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Experientially there is only one religion, and it is shamanism and shamanic ecstasy.

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
Ethnobotanist
Philosopher
Writer
Paonia
Colorado
Terence Kemp McKenna
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Shamanic
Shamanism
Ecstasy
Religion

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