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“One thing that occurs to me to say, I once, in one of these revelatory dialogs with the logos, asked the question, “why me, why are you telling me this?” because my, I mean, I was a poor hippie, I was penniless, I was a traveler, and the answer was instantaneous and it was, “because you don’t believe in anything, because you don’t believe in anything” and I think that that’s a very pure position to hold. We’re not trying to ensnare you to abandon your Jewishness or your Presbyterianism or belief, if you believe in something then you have precluded the possibility of believing in its opposite and you have hence limited your freedom. Everything is to be judged by its efficacy, by its effectiveness in the real world, and I think that I have a horror in all belief systems, I just don’t like them. If somebody tells you he has the answer, flee from this person, they are obviously some sort of low being who has not recognized the true size and dimension of the cosmos that we’re living in, and if you can keep yourself free of encumbering beliefs, then your dialog with the logos can go forward unhindered.”

-Terence McKenna