Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
TERENCE MCKENNAEvery click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
TERENCE MCKENNAI think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe overriding problems are brought on by the existence of the ego, a maladaptive behavioral complex in the psyche that gets going like a tumor. If it’s not treated – if there’s not pharmacological intervention – it becomes the dominant constellation of the personality.
TERENCE MCKENNAYou 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 MCKENNAThe psychedelic inner astronaut sees things which no human being has ever seen before, and no other human being will ever see again. But in fact this has no meaning unless it is possible to carry it back into the collectivity.
TERENCE MCKENNAWe are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
TERENCE MCKENNAIf you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
TERENCE MCKENNAYou are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a world and asks the question, ‘What is it?’ In that moment art can be created.
TERENCE MCKENNAIt is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know… You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You’ll have that!
TERENCE MCKENNAThe major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.
TERENCE MCKENNAYou are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
TERENCE MCKENNANobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
TERENCE MCKENNAIt’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe 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.
TERENCE MCKENNAI see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can’t have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.
TERENCE MCKENNAWe have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; the world is something we make through the act of perception.
TERENCE MCKENNA