What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what’s real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.
TERENCE MCKENNAWhat was created by the era of the proper gentleman was excellent table manners and genocide over most of the surface of the planet.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
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People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
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Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
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Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
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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.
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If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
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We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
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You’re immortal as long as you live.
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The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
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Cultures are virtual realities made of language.
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Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you’re talking about.
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The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
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Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
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If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
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Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
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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.
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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman’s relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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Worrying is betting against yourself.
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Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
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You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.
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The world which we perceive is a tiny fraction of the world which we can perceive, which is a tiny fraction of the perceivable world.
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There is no liberation to compare with freeing oneself from the illusions and delusions of the age in which one lives.
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Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behaviour and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.
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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?
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This is what they have suppressed so long. This is why they are so afraid of the psychedelics, because they understand that once you touch the inner core of your own and someone else’s being you can’t be led into thing-fetishes and consumerism.
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Shamanism has always known this, and shamanism has always, in its most authentic expressions, taught that the path required allies.
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I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It’s not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking.
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