black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.

Terence McKenna

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 MCKENNA

Anything Artist Burn Country Journey Mankind Self
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
Astonishment is the proper response to reality.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Astonishment Proper Reality Response
Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Against Consciousness Culture Expansion Pilot Plot
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
Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Eden People Person Plant Psychoactive Relationship Stories Struggle Woman
Don’t worry. You don’t know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for cryin’ out loud. It’s a total waste of time. It presupposes such a knowledge of the situation that it is, in fact, a form of hubris.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Cryin Enough Loud Out Think Waste Worry
Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Conquer Enemy Expression Nature Raped Teaching Understanding
When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Cultural Inspection Own Psyche Shed
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
What we call reality is in fact nothing more than a culturally sanctioned and linguistically reinforced hallucination.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Call Fact Hallucinations Nothing Reality Sanction
Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Deal Doe Ever Experience Science Subjective Well
We are told No, you’re unimportant, you’re peripheral – get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you’re a player.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Degree Game Job Player Told Unimportant
We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Ingheritor Million Strive Unspeakable Year
Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Culture Language Made Reality Virtual

The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Terence McKenna Quotes