Consciousness Quotes by Terence McKenna

I sort of see [cannabis] as the pilot light of Gian consciousness.

— Terence McKenna

We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.

— Terence McKenna

Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness

— Terence McKenna

Culture is a plot against the expansion of consciousness.

— Terence McKenna

Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind…

— Terence McKenna

I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is…

— Terence McKenna

The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Just as the history of yourself…

— Terence McKenna

If the words 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness' don't include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the…

— Terence McKenna

This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god…

— Terence McKenna

You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new…

— Terence McKenna

It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our…

— Terence McKenna

Drugs are about dulling perception, about addiction and about behavioral repetition...What *psychedelics* are about is pattern- dissolving experiences of an extraordinarily high…

— 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

If psychedelics are, on any level, to be taken seriously as catalyzers or expanders of consciousness, then we need them, because it's…

— 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

Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness. . . . Would that we could send robots who could film…

— Terence McKenna

We must look to the native healers all over the world and study their methods... Their methods are chemical and personal. It's…

— Terence McKenna

One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You…

— Terence McKenna

We have the tools, the intellect, the will to create a caring global culture. It isn't going to come without a recognition…

— Terence McKenna

“Our culture, self-toxified by the poisonous by-products of technology and egocentric ideology, is the unhappy inheritor of the dominator attitude that alteration…

— Terence McKenna

“It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. These are the two things that the psychedelics attack. We have…

— 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

I think with the work we do with these drugs we are the earliest pioneers in what over the next 100 years…

— Terence McKenna

I do not think that the government, under the guise of some phony, alarmist, pseudo-scientific rhetoric, should attempt to control the evolution…

— Terence McKenna

What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings,…

— 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