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Cultural conditioning is like bad software. over and over it's diddled with and re-written so that it can just run on the next attempt. but there is cultural hardware, and it's that cultural hardware, otherwise known as authentic being, that we are propelled toward by the example of the shaman and the techniques of the shaman. ... shamanism therefore is a call to authenticity.
-Terence McKenna
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Cultural Conditioning Is Like Bad Software. Over

Terence McKenna
Cultural conditioning is like bad software. over and over it's diddled with and re-written so that it can just run on the next attempt. but there is cultural hardware, and it's that cultural hardware, otherwise known as authentic being, that we are propelled toward by the example of the shaman and the techniques of the shaman. ... shamanism therefore is a call to authenticity.
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