Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
TERENCE MCKENNAIt’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
-
-
There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
TERENCE MCKENNA -
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 -
Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
TERENCE MCKENNA -
What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.
TERENCE MCKENNA -
You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
TERENCE MCKENNA -
The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the world is made of you can make of it whatever you wish.
TERENCE MCKENNA -
What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
TERENCE MCKENNA -
Worrying is betting against yourself.
TERENCE MCKENNA -
Reality is made of words.
TERENCE MCKENNA -
Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it’s not necessarily some kind of ‘Be Here Now’ feel-good thing because it doesn’t always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It’s primary.
TERENCE MCKENNA -
This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed.
TERENCE MCKENNA -
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
TERENCE MCKENNA -
Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
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 -
What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
TERENCE MCKENNA






