Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
TERENCE MCKENNAAnything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
TERENCE MCKENNAThis 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 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 MCKENNAAstonishment is the proper response to reality.
TERENCE MCKENNAI don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
TERENCE MCKENNANo one knows enough to worry.
TERENCE MCKENNABeauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
TERENCE MCKENNAWe are caught inside a mystery, veiled in an enigma, locked inside a riddle
TERENCE MCKENNAThere is an angel within the monkey struggling to get free, and this is what the historical crisis is all about.
TERENCE MCKENNAHow do we fight back? By creating art.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
TERENCE MCKENNAWe are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
TERENCE MCKENNAWhen 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.
TERENCE MCKENNAThe problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
TERENCE MCKENNAEvery click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
TERENCE MCKENNACapitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you’re gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough,
TERENCE MCKENNA