Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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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.
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What was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
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The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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Don’t worry. You don’t know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin’ out loud. It’s a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
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We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat.
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If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from the sense of self as part of nature’s larger whole. The ultimate consequence of this drift is the fatal ennui that now permeates Western Civilization.
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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