The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the artists, who are self-selected, for being able to journey into the Other, if the artists cannot find the way, then the way cannot be found.
TERENCE MCKENNAIf 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.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
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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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We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
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You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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It’s meanings that we need to coax into our lives.
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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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The 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.
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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.
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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
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To the degree that you avert your gaze from this truth, you build the potential for pain into your life. Everything is this act of embracing the present moment, the felt presence of experience, and then moving on to the next felt moment of experience. It’s literally psychological nomadism is what it is.
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Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
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What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
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I don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
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Who is to say what is real and what is not?’Real’ is a distinction of a naïve mind.
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