"Time is a topological manifold. It is a……" — Terence McKenna
"Time is a topological manifold. It is a surface. Events flow across it like water over land and like water flowing over land, when the land is flat, the water becomes reflective and moves slowly. When the landscape becomes disrupted, the water moves faster and chaotic attractors appear and new kinds of activity emerge and out of that new activity, there comes the new states that define the future."
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202 Quotes by Terence McKenna
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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History is rooted in the future
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