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title: "51 Kind Quotes By Terence McKenna"
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> [Psychedelics are actually a kind of miraculous reality that can stand the test of objective examination.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/psychedelics-are-actually-a-kind-of-miraculous-reality-that-can-stand/)

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> [The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/the-main-thing-to-understand-is-that-we-are-imprisoned-in-some-kind/)

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> [What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/what-i-think-is-going-on-is-that-probably-language-was-entertainment/)

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> [History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/history-call-it-15-000-or-25-000-years-of-duration-is-the-story-of-an/)

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> [Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/science-works-its-miracles-by-turning-its-enterprise-into-a-kind-of/)

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> [Plants seem like an excellent model for the kind of future that we should be building.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/plants-seem-like-an-excellent-model-for-the-kind-of-future-that-we/)

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> [Being imposes some kind of obligation to find out what's going on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/being-imposes-some-kind-of-obligation-to-find-out-what-s-going-on/)

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> [Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/clearly-what-is-happening-i-think-is-there-is-a-kind-of-global/)

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> [The "just say no" campaign at this point is a lot like drawing sea-monsters over certain unexplored areas of the map and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/the-just-say-no-campaign-at-this-point-is-a-lot-like-drawing-sea/)

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> [This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/this-rising-global-humanism-is-in-fact-the-rising-into-consciousness/)

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> [When we really understand time travel we may find out it's as common as dirt and has been going on all around…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/when-we-really-understand-time-travel-we-may-find-out-it-s-as-common/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/i-think-ideology-is-toxic-all-ideology-it-s-not-that-there-are-good/)

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> [Because I believe psychedelics are a kind of higher dimensional sectioning of reality, I think they give the kind of stereoscopic vision…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/because-i-believe-psychedelics-are-a-kind-of-higher-dimensional/)

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> [We have changed. We are no longer, as I said, bipedal monkeys. We are instead a kind of cybernetic coral reef of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/we-have-changed-we-are-no-longer-as-i-said-bipedal-monkeys-we-are/)

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> [Obviously, it's some kind of freely commanded modality in the psyche with which we can have a relationship if we will but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/obviously-it-s-some-kind-of-freely-commanded-modality-in-the-psyche/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/think-about-our-dilemma-on-this-planet-if-the-expansion-of/)

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> [People are, in the confines of their own apartments, becoming Magellans of the interior world and reaching out to this alien thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/people-are-in-the-confines-of-their-own-apartments-becoming-magellans/)

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> [Man was not put on this planet to toil in the mud. Or the god who put us on this planet to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/man-was-not-put-on-this-planet-to-toil-in-the-mud-or-the-god-who-put/)

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> [What we really are is a community of mind, knitted together by codes and symbols, intuitions, aspirations, histories, hopes - the invisible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/what-we-really-are-is-a-community-of-mind-knitted-together-by-codes/)

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> [This is a very central part of the psychedelic attitude toward the world, to entertain all possibilities but to never commit to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/this-is-a-very-central-part-of-the-psychedelic-attitude-toward-the/)

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> [To contact the cosmic giggle, to have the flow of casuistry begin to give off synchronistic ripples, whitecaps in the billows of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/to-contact-the-cosmic-giggle-to-have-the-flow-of-casuistry-begin-to/)

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> [What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/what-blinds-us-or-makes-historical-progress-very-difficult-is-our/)

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> [Part of what the psychedelic point of view represents is living a certain portion of your life without answers. Just accepting that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/part-of-what-the-psychedelic-point-of-view-represents-is-living-a/)

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> [Ayahuasca is driven by sound, by song, by whistling. And its ability to transform sound, including vocal sound, into the visual spectrum…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/ayahuasca-is-driven-by-sound-by-song-by-whistling-and-its-ability-to/)

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> [I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/i-often-like-to-think-that-our-map-of-the-world-is-wrong-that-where/)

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> [It is now very clear that techniques of machine-human interfacing, pharmacology of the synthetic variety, all kinds of manipulative techniques, all kinds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/it-is-now-very-clear-that-techniques-of-machine-human-interfacing/)

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> [Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/sometime-in-the-last-50-000-years-before-12-000-years-ago-a-kind-of/)

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> [We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/we-are-somehow-the-children-of-the-planet-we-are-somehow-its-finest/)

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> [The psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/the-psychedelic-sets-you-at-the-beginning-of-the-path-and-then-people/)

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> [Reality itself is not static. This is one of the things that the psychedelic is trying to put across, that the reality…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/reality-itself-is-not-static-this-is-one-of-the-things-that-the/)

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> [What the churches are peddling is high abstraction, and you really have to work yourself up into a lather to be able…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/what-the-churches-are-peddling-is-high-abstraction-and-you-really/)

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> [You can stand back and look at this planet and see that we have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/you-can-stand-back-and-look-at-this-planet-and-see-that-we-have-the/)

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> [You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/you-are-some-kind-of-a-mystery-suspended-between-two-eternities-and/)

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> [For me it's an issue of are we afraid of ourselves? And we inherit a huge bunch of idealogical baggage, not only…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/for-me-it-s-an-issue-of-are-we-afraid-of-ourselves-and-we-inherit-a/)

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> [We are an intelligent species caught in an historical process. No generation which proceeded us knew what was going on, and there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/we-are-an-intelligent-species-caught-in-an-historical-process-no/)

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> [What's popularly known as the evolution of consciousness, in other words that the expansion of cognitive repertoire that occurs in human beings,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/what-s-popularly-known-as-the-evolution-of-consciousness-in-other/)

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> [I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/i-think-the-real-test-of-psychedelics-is-what-you-do-with-them-when/)

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> [There’s light at the end of the tunnel. The problem is that tunnel is in the back of your mind. And if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/there-s-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-the-problem-is-that-tunnel-is/)

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> [Time is a topological manifold. It is a surface. Events flow across it like water over land and like water flowing over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/time-is-a-topological-manifold-it-is-a-surface-events-flow-across-it/)

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> [What is happening, I think, it's really bigger than psychedelics, it's bigger than human evolution. We are not making the waves in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/what-is-happening-i-think-it-s-really-bigger-than-psychedelics-it-s/)

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## More by Terence McKenna

> [History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/history-was-an-incredibly-damaging-experience-and-now-it-s-over-in-a/)

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> [We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/we-are-somehow-the-children-of-the-planet-we-are-somehow-its-finest/)

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> [The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Just as the history of yourself that you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/the-history-of-man-that-you-don-t-know-is-what-your-unconscious-is/)

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> [We are consciousness. We may not always be monkeys.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/we-are-consciousness-we-may-not-always-be-monkeys/)

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> [What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/what-is-happening-here-is-we-are-living-past-the-age-by-the-millions/)

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> [What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/what-history-is-essentially-is-a-careening-out-of-control-effort-to/)

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> [And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/and-what-is-the-primary-datum-it-s-the-felt-presence-of-immediate/)

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> [Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/our-culture-difinitely-takes-an-egocentric-dominator-view-the-fear-of/)

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> [Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/every-step-into-freedom-contains-within-it-the-potential-for-greater/)

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> [This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/this-is-the-message-of-your-life-and-my-life-it-s-that-nothing-lasts/)

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> [I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/i-often-like-to-think-that-our-map-of-the-world-is-wrong-that-where/)

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> [Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/knowledge-or-verbal-facility-is-no-proof-that-you-know-what-you-re/)

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> [No culture on earth is as heavily narcotized as the industrial West in terms of being inured to the consequences of maladaptive behavior. We…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/no-culture-on-earth-is-as-heavily-narcotized-as-the-industrial-west/)

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> [Man was not put on this planet to toil in the mud. Or the god who put us on this planet to toil in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/man-was-not-put-on-this-planet-to-toil-in-the-mud-or-the-god-who-put/)

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> [If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new community that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/terence-mckenna/if-you-take-psychedelics-and-the-internet-and-music-and-put-all-of/)

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