Knows Quotes by Terence McKenna

For all we know, we know nothing.

— Terence McKenna

No one knows enough to worry.

— Terence McKenna

You know what, I'm stoned, and I'm proud.

— Terence McKenna

DMT is the most powerful hallucinogen there is. If it gets stronger than that I don't want to know about it.

— Terence McKenna

That's what a god is. Somebody who knows more than you do about whatever you're dealing with.

— Terence McKenna

The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.

— Terence McKenna

I don’t know what life is like without cannabis, I hear there is such a thing.

— Terence McKenna

How can we know who is the other until we know who is the self?

— Terence McKenna

Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about.

— Terence McKenna

The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of.

— Terence McKenna

The party impulse is a very subversive impulse. I mean, you know, a lot of artists have too much integrity to sell…

— Terence McKenna

If you go to Paris you know more about reality than people who don't. If you smoke DMT you know more about…

— Terence McKenna

We now know enough to fantasize realistically about what the alien would be like, and I think that this then sets up…

— Terence McKenna

The world could be anything, you know, It could be a solid state matrix of some sort. It could be an illusion.…

— Terence McKenna

All of you who have been through high dose psychedelic experiences know that it's very hard to carry stupid baggage through that…

— Terence McKenna

You can stand back and look at this planet and see that we have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the…

— Terence McKenna

The future holds no terrors for a person who knows how process inevitably unfolds. They are always right and with it each…

— 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

The psychedelic experience is simply a compressed instance of what we call understanding, so that living psychedelically is trying to live in…

— Terence McKenna

I mean everybody knows there's something wrong with the world and if you read left wing politicians or deconstructionists or thoughtful historians…

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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…

— Terence McKenna

So you know what we have to do is stop looking for leadership from the top, because the least among us make…

— Terence McKenna

One has, you know, a window of opportunity somewhere between zip and a hundred to solve, or understand, or penetrate, or appreciate,…

— Terence McKenna

What WE represent is the nexus of concrescent novelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself, folding itself in upon itself…

— Terence McKenna

Modernity is a desert, and we are jungle monkeys. And so new evolutionary selective pressures are coming to bear upon the human…

— Terence McKenna

If you take psychedelics and the Internet and music and put all of that together you have the basis for a new…

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There is this persistent theme in all of these notions that death is made more easy, whatever that means, if you've learned…

— Terence McKenna

The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the…

— Terence McKenna

It's the only hallucinogen I know, where if it's made right, the next day, or the day after the experience, you actually…

— Terence McKenna

And the whole schtick of the psychedelic experience, I think, is reclaim immediate experience, realize that you out vote all parliaments, police…

— Terence McKenna

And certainly when I reached La Chorerra in 1971 I had a price on my head by the FBI, I was running…

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...situations evolve as matter responds to the conditioning of time and space...If you know what is contained in time from its beginning…

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It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does.…

— Terence McKenna

In shamanism and certain yogas, Taoist yoga, claim very clearly that the purpose is to familiarize yourself with this after-death body, in…

— Terence McKenna

Perhaps, you know, new laws, new domains of potential openness are occurring as the universe ages, and complexity previously disallowed is now…

— Terence McKenna

Don't worry. You don't know enough to worry. . . . Who do you think you are that you should worry, for…

— Terence McKenna

The psychedelic universe, whatever it is, is the major datum of experience. It's larger than this planet. Nobody knows how large it…

— Terence McKenna

Wherever we press beyond the thin curtain of rationalist culture, we discover the incredibly rich, erotic, scary, promising presence of this intelligent…

— Terence McKenna

The shaman is a person who is able to transcend the dimensional confines of cultural existence. They know more than the people…

— Terence McKenna

Ultimately what we're touching is the invisible, all-pervasive intelligence that surrounds us and penetrates us. It is grooming us to be able…

— Terence McKenna