More Terence McKenna quotes
Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna You’re immortal as long as you live.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna No one knows enough to worry.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna How do we fight back? By creating art.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna We are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna You 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 McKennaTerence McKenna We 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 McKennaTerence McKenna What happens with DMT is you leap over all the barriers in the first few seconds. Unlike mushrooms where over hours and hours on a high dose you might navigate yourself to the center of the mandala, DMT is like being struck by metaphysical lightening.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna 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.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
Terence McKennaTerence McKenna Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
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