black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Terence McKenna

Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivized consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Against Blowing Culture Ego Fact Member Mind Neurotic Structure
We are the inheritors of a million years of striving for the unspeakable.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Ingheritor Million Strive Unspeakable Year
For all we know, we know nothing.
TERENCE MCKENNA

All Know Nothing
Every click of the cosmic clock brings us closer to the process for which the planet called us into existence.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Call Click Clock Closer Cosmic Existence Planet Process
The drugs of the future will be computers. The computers of the future will be drugs.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Computer Drug Future
The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Conclusion Draw Drawing Human Last Long Night
We’ve painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare – triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights – or a leap to an entirely different level. We’ve taken business-as-usual off the menu. Now only the extreme possibilities loom.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Choice Corner Disease Epidemics Famine Fascinate Hippie Nightmare Ourselves Paint Real Taken Triage
Our ability to destroy ourselves is the mirror image of our ability to save ourselves.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Ability End Mirror Image Mirrors Psychedelic
It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Confront Easy Measure Ocean
Worrying is betting against yourself.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Against Betting Worry Yourself
I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Cannabis Hear Life Like Thing
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
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.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Afraid Culture Emotional Long Psychedelic Suppressed Understand
Beauty is self-defined, perceived and understood without ambiguity. It’s the stuff that lies under the skins of our individual existences.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Ambiguity Beauty Define Life Lying Self Understood
Anything which must be understood by millions of people is so hopelessly divorced from how it is that it becomes a form of fiction.
TERENCE MCKENNA

Anything Become Divorce Fiction Form Hopeless Million People Understood
People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.
TERENCE MCKENNA

People Perpetual Plant State Want

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Terence McKenna Quotes