Mind Quotes by Terence McKenna

Mind conjures miracles out of time.

— Terence McKenna

Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

— Terence McKenna

The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.

— Terence McKenna

The mind is a far bigger domain than we ever imagined.

— Terence McKenna

The mind is the cutting edge of the evolving event system.

— Terence McKenna

What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we…

— Terence McKenna

I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their…

— Terence McKenna

Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind...

— Terence McKenna

Without sounding too cliché, the Internet really is the birth of some kind of global mind.

— Terence McKenna

Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.

— Terence McKenna

The western mind, because of it's unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics.

— Terence McKenna

There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.

— Terence McKenna

The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern…

— Terence McKenna

You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a…

— Terence McKenna

I think that's the job of each of us - to show our best toys and our best tricks that lift us…

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The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human…

— Terence McKenna

I believe that what makes the psychedelic experience so central is that it is a connection into a larger modality of organization…

— Terence McKenna

Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is…

— Terence McKenna

History is just this froth of artifact production that has appeared in the last ten to fifteen thousand years. It spread across…

— Terence McKenna

The sensory ratios that are being reinforced by the new electronic technology are like the sensory ratios that were in place fifteen…

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What the psychedelic experience really is, is opening the doorway into a lost continent of the human mind, a continent that we…

— Terence McKenna

The fungi became, or is for some mysterious reason still to be discovered, a pipeline into a mind, an entelechy, which we…

— Terence McKenna

The other night I searched (the Web) for 'self-transforming elf machines.' There were 36 hits! It surprised me. I sort of use…

— Terence McKenna

What I'm talking about is actually is the Mystery of Being as existential fact. That there is something that haunts this world…

— Terence McKenna

We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of…

— Terence McKenna

We are told No, you're unimportant, you're peripheral - get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then…

— Terence McKenna

No one yet understands the mysterious intelligence within plants or the implications of the idea that nature communicates in a basic chemical…

— Terence McKenna

The idea of psychedelic societies is something new. And it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone takes the drug. It merely means that…

— Terence McKenna

The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human…

— Terence McKenna

Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while…

— Terence McKenna

But a mature humanity could get into a place where we no longer required these metaphysical spankings from messiahs and flying saucers…

— Terence McKenna

The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.

— Terence McKenna

That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.

— Terence McKenna

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.

— Terence McKenna

The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being.

— Terence McKenna

It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind.

— Terence McKenna

To my mind this is what shamanic training must really be, is mnemonic training. If you want to bring the stuff back…

— Terence McKenna

The psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a…

— Terence McKenna

In a sense, what's happening is that the unconscious mind is a luxury the human species cannot afford at this point in…

— Terence McKenna

If you actually look at the etymology of the word 'hallucination', what it's come to mean in English is a delusion. But…

— Terence McKenna