Capitalism 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 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 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 MCKENNAKnowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
TERENCE MCKENNAWhat we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
TERENCE MCKENNAOur assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
TERENCE MCKENNANature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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 MCKENNAWe 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.
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 MCKENNABeing imposes some kind of obligation to find out what’s going on.
TERENCE MCKENNAThere is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
TERENCE MCKENNATo 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 MCKENNAI don’t believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
TERENCE MCKENNANobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
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.
TERENCE MCKENNAHow can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
TERENCE MCKENNA