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DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen there is. If it gets stronger than that I don't want to know about it.
Terence McKenna
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Terence McKenna
Age: 53 †
Born: 1946
Born: November 16
Died: 2000
Died: April 3
Anthropologist
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The future holds no terrors for a person who knows how process inevitably unfolds. They are always right and with it each moment.
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Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer
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