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The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.

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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
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It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.
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We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. Lets us declare Nature to be legitimate. The notion of illegal plants is obnoxious and ridiculous in the first place.
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I have a skeptical and cranky side, and I'm forever puzzled why people believe the, seeming to me, dumb things that they choose to believe.
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The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.
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Our task is to create memes... Launch your meme boldly and see if it will replicate.
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What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.
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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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The lack of a sense of history makes us really prey to manipulation.
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Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed
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What you call man is time.
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Belief is a toxic and dangerous attitude toward reality. After all, if it's there it doesn't require your belief- and if it's not there why should you believe in it?
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