Terence McKenna Quotes

No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the ...

The ultimate singularity is the Big Bang, which physicists believe was responsible for the birth of ...

Reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a ...

If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent...

From a historical point of view, restricting the availability of addictive substances must be seen a...

We can begin the restructuring of thought by declaring legitimate what we have denied for so long. L...

We tend to disempower ourselves. We tend to believe that we don’t matter. And in the act of taking t...

Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we rea...

We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create yo...

Part of what psychedelics do is they decondition you from cultural values. This is what makes it suc...

The purpose of life is to familiarize oneself with this after-death body so that the act of dying wi...

The questions of God – meaning in Milton’s phrase “The god who hung the stars like lamps in heaven” ...

It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological po...

Every culture that’s ever existed has operated under the illusion that it understood 95% of reality ...

A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro...

A hallucination is to be in the presence of that which previously could not be imagined, and if it p...

I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, and I’l...

Schizophrenia is just a catch-all term for forms of mental behaviour that we don’t understand. In th...

When we look within ourselves with psilocybin, we discover that we do not have to look outward towar...

You don’t go on bended-knee to petition the official culture for your rights. You have to take them.

It’s very important that people take back their minds and that people analyse our dilemma in the con...

You see, a secret is not something untold. It’s something which can’t be told.

You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring bac...

Nowhere is it writ that anthropoid apes should understand reality.

The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist i...

We live in condensations of our imagination

The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collecti...

The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which ...

Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.

The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.

History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thous...

Nothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement. So it's very important to actually li...

The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer

Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up...

We are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a t...

I guess I should say a little bit about my method - I really am a fence sitter. I *loathe* Science a...

Our culture, self-toxified by the poisonous by-products of technology and egocentric ideology, is th...

Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?

Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening

Human history is a Gaian dream.

The ufo is nothing more than an assertion of herself by the Goddess into history, saying to science ...

Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.

You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light,...

Feminism is a tremendously underestimated force, viewed in the present context primarily as a woman'...

We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we ...

The reason we feel alienated is because the society is infantile, trivial, and stupid. So the cost o...

No other drug can compete with cannabis for its ability to satisfy the innate yearnings for Archaic ...

Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explore...

What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other'...

Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is lif...

My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded...

The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns....

I think of going to the Grave without having a Psychedelic Experience is like going to the Grave wit...

Chaos is what we've lost touch with. This is why it is given a bad name. It is feared by the dominan...

It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent...

Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empat...

What is important is to understand the true boundaries of reality, not the probable boundaries of po...