But technology is the real skin of our species. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last … - Terence McKenna

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All classifications in this world lack sharp boundaries, and all transitions are gradual.

Terence McKenna

But technology is the real skin of our species. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last five hundred years, is an extruder of technological material. We take in matter that has a low degree of organization; we put it through mental filters, and we extrude jewelry, gospels, space shuttles. This is what we do. We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects. All our tool making implies our belief in an ultimate tool. That tool is the flying saucer, or the soul, exteriorized in three-dimensional space.

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