black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.

Terence McKenna

Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Ability End Mirror Image Mirrors Psychedelic
There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Age Choice Compare Epidemic Free Illusion Liberation Live Nightmare Real
When 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 MCKENNA

Art Dimension Freed Ourselves Void
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

Created Eras Excellent Genocide Gentleman Gentlemen Manner Most Over Proper Surface Table Tables
Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
TERENCE MCKENNA

Absence Consciousness Crisis Dmt Mind Blow Our World
Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Commitment Courage Dream Love Nature Teacher
Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Clain Empowerment Forward Go Imagination Light Place Sun
The message of psychedelics is that culture can be re-engineered as a set of emotional values rather than products. This is terrifying news.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Engineer Product Psychedelics Terrifying The Message
The problem is not to find the answer, it’s to face the answer
TERENCE MCKENNA

Answer Face Mind Blowing Problem
To realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Actual Billionaraire Create Destroy Economic Hundred Masses People Standard Year
People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
TERENCE MCKENNA

People Perpetual Plant State Want
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.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Act Degree Everything Experience Literally Moment Movement Potential Present Truth
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Know Proof Talking Verbal
Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind of future is it going to be?
TERENCE MCKENNA

Dilemma Doe Expansion Planet Thinking
The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
TERENCE MCKENNA

Alienation Certain Cost Dmt Level Mind Blowing Sanity Society
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

Blowing Made Magic Mind Real Secret Word World

The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Terence McKenna Quotes