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 MCKENNAThe drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
More Terence McKenna Quotes
-
-
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 -
Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
TERENCE MCKENNA -
We do not birth our children into the world of nature. We birth our children into the world of culture.
TERENCE MCKENNA -
Behind us: the unknown. Before us: the secret.
TERENCE MCKENNA -
If you don’t have a plan, you become part of somebody else’s plan.
TERENCE MCKENNA -
For talking monkeys to speak of truth is hubris of the highest degree. Where is it writ large that talking monkeys should be able to model the cosmos? If a sea urchin or a racoon were to propose to you that it had a viable truth about the universe.
TERENCE 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 MCKENNA -
Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored.
TERENCE MCKENNA -
Science does not deal with subjective experience… Well that’s too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
TERENCE MCKENNA -
You are a divine being. You matter, you count. You come from realms of unimaginable power and light, and you will return to those realms.
TERENCE MCKENNA -
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.
TERENCE MCKENNA -
Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the moment. And it’s not necessarily some kind of ‘Be Here Now’ feel-good thing because it doesn’t always feel good. But it always feels. It is a domain of feeling. It’s primary.
TERENCE MCKENNA -
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 MCKENNA -
The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.
TERENCE MCKENNA -
No one knows enough to worry.
TERENCE MCKENNA