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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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Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.
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Man was not put on this planet to toil in the mud. Or the god who put us on this planet to toil in the mud is no god I want to have any part of. It's some kind of gnostic demon. It's some kind of cannibalistic demiurge that should be thoroughly renounced and rejected.
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The world could be anything, you know, It could be a solid state matrix of some sort. It could be an illusion. It could be a dream. I mean it really could be a dream.
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[This legendary Amazonian substance is] a cybernetic transdimentional medium of some sort that is generated out of the mysteries of the physiology of the human body.
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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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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.
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