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The engineers of the future will be poets.
— Terence McKenna
So when you look at the eschaton what you see, strangely enough, is your own face.
— Terence McKenna
Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!
— Terence McKenna
You may miss the end of the world, but you definitely are going to have a front row seat for the end of your world.
— Terence McKenna
The word 'self' is as great a mystery as the word 'other'. It's just a polarity between two mysteries.
— Terence McKenna
A lot of people pass through the thinking I'm a guru and take enough trips to understand that no, I was just a witness. I was just a witness.
— Terence McKenna
Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
— Terence McKenna
The truth for sure, when it arrives,
will make you smile.
If it doesn't,
you should seek
a deeper truth. — Terence McKenna
The terror of drugs is a terror of giving up control. This is what people are most alarmed about by psychedelics, is the giving up control.
— Terence McKenna
We're not mere spectators, or a cosmic accident, or some sideshow, or the Greek chorus to the main event. The human experience IS the main event.
— Terence McKenna
If you go to Paris you know more about reality than people who don't. If you smoke DMT you know more about reality than people who don't.
— Terence McKenna
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I sort of see [cannabis] as the pilot light of Gian consciousness.
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You're immortal as long as you live.
— Terence McKenna
The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
— Terence McKenna
All information is everywhere. Information that is not here is nowhere.
— Terence McKenna
Time will perfect matter.
— Terence McKenna
What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.
— Terence McKenna
Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas
— Terence McKenna
We don't have to look far for miracles because they're all around us. Everything is astonishing. The universe on it's surface is alive with mystery.
— Terence McKenna
National governments are under paid, under staffed, and under talented.
— Terence McKenna
Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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The obligation on us is to communicate the truth so that it is understood. The belief will take care of itself.
— Terence McKenna
I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.
— Terence McKenna
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[ ... ] thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations.
— Terence McKenna
I believe that the place to search for extraterrestrials is in the psychic dimension.
— Terence McKenna
My idea of enlightenment is when ego and Tao are fused, and Tao is perceived as ego. Then everything happens with complete appropriateness.
— Terence McKenna
Basically, for me the psychedelic experience was the path to revelation. It actually worked on somebody who thought nothing would work.
— Terence McKenna
It's pretty simple, the ethical life. It's just demanding.
— Terence McKenna
Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.
— Terence McKenna
Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy.
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There is no question that a society that sets out to control its citizens' use of drugs sets out on the slippery path to totalitarianism.
— Terence McKenna
It was the fall into history that enslaved us to the labor cycle, to the agricultural cycle. And notice how fiendish it is.
— Terence McKenna
Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
— Terence McKenna
Apparently, in the Avesta classical period no one would have dreamed of having a spiritual experience without resort to drugs.
— Terence McKenna
Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language.
— Terence McKenna
The felt presence of immediate experiencethis is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor. — Terence McKenna
Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.
— Terence McKenna
History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.
— Terence McKenna
No more do we create cultural artifacts that are simply our furniture, but now it's our thoughts, our values, are embodied in this [digital] stuff.
— Terence McKenna
The data stream has been corrupted, return to first principles.
— Terence McKenna
The Internet is the global brain, the cyberspacially connected, telepathic, collective domain that we've all been hungering for.
— Terence McKenna
What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.
— Terence McKenna
Because the planetary culture is becoming ever more closely knitted together all its parts are becoming co-dependent.
— Terence McKenna
The mind is a far bigger domain than we ever imagined.
— Terence McKenna
The real truth is splintered and spread throughout time.
— Terence McKenna
It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
— Terence McKenna
Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.
— Terence McKenna
What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn't imagine it if it weren't real somewhere, sometime.
— Terence McKenna
Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.
— Terence McKenna
Flying saucers are nothing more than miracles, and they occur essentially to bedevil science.
— Terence McKenna
The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.
— Terence McKenna
I'm not an advocate for everything that rolls out of the laboratory. I'm an advocate for things sanctioned by millennia of usage.
— Terence McKenna
I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.
— Terence McKenna
Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.
— Terence McKenna
There is no hierarchy of elder knowledge in my social region of things. There are only people learning and sharing in a very complex environment.
— Terence McKenna
I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.
— Terence McKenna
The Aeon is a child at play with colored balls.(translation/paraphrase: Terence McKenna) — Heraclitus
The western mind, because of it's unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics.
— Terence McKenna
Psychedelic experiences and dreams are chemical cousins; they are only different in degree.
— Terence McKenna
Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.
— Terence McKenna
One thing that these Buddhists have certainly gotten right is that attention to attention is the key to taking control of your mental life.
— Terence McKenna
I'm fascinated by hallucinations. I mean, to me that is the sina qua non that you're getting somewhere.
— Terence McKenna
No one knows enough to worry.
— Terence McKenna
Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves,
— Terence McKenna
I have nothing but scorn for all weird ideas other than my own.
— Terence McKenna
Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.
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History is a series of approximations of the final singularity.
— Terence McKenna
Half the time you think your thinking you're actually listening
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One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.
— Terence McKenna
Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It's the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
— Terence McKenna
There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.
— Terence McKenna
Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.
— Terence McKenna
If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.
— Terence McKenna
What you call man is time.
— Terence McKenna
The message coming back at all of us is: live without closure.
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We are like caterpillars contemplating pupation.
— Terence McKenna
Language betrays, in order to mean. — Terence McKenna
I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.
— Terence McKenna
Human populations that do not have contact with the psychedelic tremendum are neurotic because they are male ego dominated.
— Terence McKenna
It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.
— Terence McKenna
Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.
— Terence McKenna
Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants
— Terence McKenna
People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
— Terence McKenna
For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity.
— Terence McKenna
Mind conjures miracles out of time.
— Terence McKenna
I spend as many hours a day as I possibly can smoking cannabis
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Let's not underrate cannabis, for cryin' out loud. Cannabis should be the glue of the community.
— Terence McKenna
Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.
— Terence McKenna
History is rooted in the future
— Terence McKenna
Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.
— Terence McKenna
