black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.

Terence McKenna

The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Field Made Meason Photons Quark Reality World
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.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Animal Begin Imagination Mind Psychedelic Substance
Alcoholism isn’t a disease. It’s a failure of self-image.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Alcoholism Disease Failure Image Self
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 MCKENNA

Alarmed Control Drug Giving Most Npsychedelics People Terror Up
Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Against Consciousness Culture Expansion Pilot Plot
These allies are the hallucinogenic plants and the mysterious teaching entities, luminous and transcendental, that reside in that nearby dimension of ecstatic beauty and understanding that we have denied until it is now nearly too late.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Allies Beauty Dimension Late Mysterious Nearly Understand Understanding
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
Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Deaf Environment Men Mute Nature
It 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 MCKENNA

Dose Elves Everybody Example Prepare Smoke Sufficient True Want
There is no knowledge without risk taking.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Knowledge Risk Take
Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Assumption Our World
The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation
TERENCE MCKENNA

Alienation Certain Cost Dmt Level Mind Blowing Sanity Society
This is the message of your life and my life – it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children – nothing lasts.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Children Last Life Message Moving Nothing Pain
How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?
TERENCE MCKENNA

Know Other Self Until
The surface of things is not where attention should rest.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Attention Inspirational Life Rest Surface Thing
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

What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Terence McKenna Quotes