Terence McKenna Quotes
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Terence McKenna Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
Every click of the cosmic clock
brings us closer to the process
for which the planet called us into existence.
brings us closer to the process
for which the planet called us into existence.
The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world ...
Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience.
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.
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.
What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.
Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet
The tryptamine molecule has this unique property of releasing the structured self into the over-self.
The main thing going on in the 20th century is a dissolving of boundaries, all the boundaries that historical civilization put in place.
We are the damaged heirs of a damaged cultural style which has been practiced now for about seven thousand years.
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.
The possibility seems to be that what we call styles, or what we call motifs, are actually categories in the unconscious.
Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.
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.
The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination.
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.
The traditional manner of taking psilocybin is to take a very healthy dose, in the vicinity of 15 mg. on an empty stomach in total darkness.
When we free ourselves we are not freed into a void. When we free ourselves we are freed into a dimension in which Art is an obligation.
One has attained a very fortunate incarnation, I think, to be in a culture, in a place, in a time when psychedelic knowledge is available.
Fine tuning the institutions built by powdered wig guys two hundred years ago is a long shot at holding the whole thing together.
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.
The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.
What the psychedelic thing can be seen as, when it's done with plants, as a return to Gaia, an immersion in the feminine.
One of the things that's so striking about shamanism in the native context is the absence of mental illness.
My technique is don't believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite.
Shamanism is essentially a living tradition of alchemy that is not seeking the stone but has found the stone.
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.
Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.
I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from that place.
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.
What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.
It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.
What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance.
Television, while chemically non-invasive, nevertheless is every bit as addicting and physiologically damaging as any other drug.
I live up at about the 2000 feet level on a five acre piece of forest that I built a small house on.
Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.
Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.
It is the people who are 'far out' who are gaining advantage in the evolutionary jostling for efficacious strategies.
Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants
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.
It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable.
An interesting thing about drugs is often, when a new drug is discovered, it takes a long time to figure out how do you do it.
We need a pharmacological intervention on anti-social behavior or we are not going to get hold of our dilemma.