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What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we change our minds.
— Terence McKenna
It's no big deal about how you get language to evolve. You cause language to evolve by saying new and intelligent things to each other.
— Terence McKenna
CUNNINGHAM. Publicist at Regis McKenna's firm who handled Apple in the early Macintosh years. MICHAEL EISNER. Hard-driving
— Walter Isaacson
May the next man in McKenna's life be one of those heroes in a romance novel - rich, good-looking and perfect in every way.
— Lauren Blakely
And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.
— Terence McKenna
So when you look at the eschaton what you see, strangely enough, is your own face.
— Terence McKenna
Oh, yeah. If there's one thing I'm good for, it's comic relief.
— Shannon 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
Let's quit our jobs and fuck all day.
— Cara McKenna
[Lydia tut-tutted on seeing the grocer's apostrophe]
— Christina McKenna
It's meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
— Terence McKenna
What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.
— Terence McKenna
In the absence of good scientific data about the effects of artificial hallucinogens it's good to stick to the natural ones.
— Terence McKenna
When we really understand time travel we may find out it's as common as dirt and has been going on all around us is all kinds of physical processes.
— Terence McKenna
I believe that great weirdness stalks the universe. That's not the issue with me, but it is not tacky. It is not tacky.
— Terence McKenna
The race isn't to the swift, it's to the thoughtful.
— Terence McKenna
What we drug people have, that you don't, is repeatability.
— 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
Science does not deal with subjective experience ... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
— Terence McKenna
That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.
— Terence McKenna
Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
— Terence McKenna
It's as though a certain level of intoxication with the mushroom is the precondition for being able to communicate, but is not itself enough.
— Terence McKenna
I finally realized that this 'place' that I kept bursting into [on a psychedelic experience] was somebody's idea of a playpen.
— Terence McKenna
I believe that the place to search for extraterrestrials is in the psychic dimension.
— Terence McKenna
The psychedelic viewpoint is becoming more and more legitimate, but psychedelic drugs are not. That's the odd paradox of it.
— Terence McKenna
Hope and fear are two sides of the same coin ...
She didn't want to give up hope, so she was just going to have to live with the fear. — Shannon McKenna
She didn't want to give up hope, so she was just going to have to live with the fear. — Shannon 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
It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of us.
— Terence McKenna
There is a transcendental dimension beyond language ... It's just hard as hell to talk about!
— Terence McKenna
Anybody bugs you, anybody at all, I'll rip off both his arms. You got me?"
She tried to smile. "That's sweet, Davy. Bloodthirsty, but sweet. — Shannon McKenna
She tried to smile. "That's sweet, Davy. Bloodthirsty, but sweet. — Shannon McKenna
Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.
— Terence McKenna
She looked over at him, her eyes warm. "Your face has a story to tell."
Mouth quirking, Roan growled, "It's a top-secret face, Darlin'. — Lindsay McKenna
Mouth quirking, Roan growled, "It's a top-secret face, Darlin'. — Lindsay McKenna
Don't be stupid, privacy is an illusion in today's electronic world. And i always investigate the people who interest me
— Shannon McKenna
It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.
— Terence McKenna
That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with.
— Terence McKenna
Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.
— Terence McKenna
It's a relationship like to a crusty Zen master, or something like that. And it is really like another entity because you cannot predict the answers.
— Terence McKenna
Art's task is to save the soul of mankind.. anything less is a dithering while Rome burns.
— Terence McKenna
THE SUN FELT good on Cathy's face.
— Lindsay McKenna
There is a spiritual obligation, there is a task to be done. It is not, however, something as simple as following a set of somebody else's rules
— Terence McKenna
I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.
— Terence McKenna
What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine.
— Terence McKenna
If you want to knock down the wall between you and the life of your dreams, it's best to do it one brick at a time!
— Paul McKenna
There's only the integrity of doing and having done.
— Terence McKenna
Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back out of the hole.
— Terence McKenna
One cannot find out whether or not there's an extraterrestrial intelligence inside the mushroom unless one is willing to take the mushroom.
— Terrance McKenna
The whole of the Amazonian narcotic complex, as it's called in the old literature, is based on activation of DMT by one strategy or another.
— Terence McKenna
People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
— Terence McKenna
Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves,
— Terence McKenna
One day McKenna got hot enough
— Richard Paul Evans
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.
— Terence McKenna
History is a series of approximations of the final singularity.
— 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
The truth is that there is no shortcut, no silver bullet, and no special sauce to building a winning campaign in the 21st century.
— Elizabeth McKenna
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
The Gaian process is more than a process. It is s self-reflecting entelechy of some sort.
— Terence McKenna
As the sphere of understanding grows ever larger, necessarily the surface area of ignorance gets ever bigger
— Dennis McKenna
Branding is overrated.
— Regis McKenna
Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.
— Terence McKenna
Caring was all about surrender, in the end. The opposite of control. The difference between strangling someone and embracing them.
— Cara McKenna
If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.
— Terence McKenna
The essence of a mature human being in religious terms is the ability to see, to be aware of others' suffering and to be touched by it.
— Megan McKenna
What you call man is time.
— Terence McKenna
The message coming back at all of us is: live without closure.
— 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
No one is in charge of this process, this is what makes history so interesting, it's a runaway freight train on a dark and stormy night.
— Terence McKenna
It's our machines and our technologies that are now the major evolutionary forces acting upon us. It's not our political systems.
— Terence McKenna
As a society we cannot seem to make peace with nature. As individuals, it's hard for us to be at peace with ourselves.
— Terence McKenna
Would That All Yahweh's People Were Prophets!(Numbers 11:29)
— Megan McKenna
The 'person' is not an interchangeable part. The 'citizen' is ... The person is harking back to a pre-print model. It's what the hippies were.
— Terence McKenna
Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what's going on.
— Terence McKenna
It's the impossible become possible and yet remaining impossible.
— Terence McKenna
If you don't have a plan, you become part of somebody else's plan.
— Terence McKenna
What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless singing.
— Terence McKenna
The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer
— 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
The western mind, because of it's unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics.
— 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
It's ironic, but true, that in this age of electronic communications, personal interaction is becoming more important than ever.
— Regis McKenna
Nobody's fucked me that good in ages."
I laughed. "I didn't even get you off."
"You will. Unless you broke your hip or something. — Cara McKenna
I laughed. "I didn't even get you off."
"You will. Unless you broke your hip or something. — Cara McKenna
Let's not underrate cannabis, for cryin' out loud. Cannabis should be the glue of the community.
— Terence McKenna