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The book that really taught me to ask this question, by the way, is Jed McKenna's enlightenment trilogy.

Sorry to get all Jed-McKenna-Theory-Of-Everything here, but no being has proof that they are not in such a situation.

From WP: Arrington grew up in California, USA and Surrey, England and graduated from Claremont McKenna College with a major in economics.

McKenna was diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme, a highly aggressive form of brain cancer.

This is a ludicrous reduction of the point McKenna was making.

Terrence McKenna explores this hypothesis in his book 'Food of the Gods.' Part speculation, part historical account of the role of chemicals in human culture.

Terence McKenna too, of course, but I find his views are less appealing and less convincing to the typical HN demographic.

Terence McKenna has literally volumes to say about this argument.

As Jed McKenna notes: Why does Buddhism rarely produce Buddhas?

McKenna is more famous for his excessive use of psychedelics.

Terence McKenna smoked marijuana for 35 years heavily.

Meh', I channel Terence McKenna and Alan Watts on this matter.

Terence McKenna: "There are only about 1,000 of these GBMs a year, so it's a rare disease.

Terence McKenna defined a meme as “the smallest unit of an idea that still has coherency,” and he sure created a lot of them.

Very reminiscent of Alan Watts' "The Wisdom of Insecurity." And also something Terence McKenna said: "My technique is don't believe anything.

From this alone we can see there's some variability, as McKenna uses "just" less frequently than any of the male speakers.

It was in reference to Terrence Mckenna's view of the present assumptions that mankind has about what aliens should look like and how one should go about contacting them (and that DMT and mushrooms are probably an alien artifact).