Mean Quotes by Terence McKenna

Psychedelic telepathy is you 'see' what I mean.

— Terence McKenna

Language betrays, in order to mean.

— Terence McKenna

So part of what being psychedelic means, I think, is relentlessly living with unanswered questions.

— Terence McKenna

I'm fascinated by hallucinations. I mean, to me that is the sina qua non that you're getting somewhere.

— Terence McKenna

Eschaton comes from the Greek word 'echatos', which just means the end.

— Terence McKenna

In a way, this is a definition of shamanism. A shaman is a person who by some means has gotten out of…

— Terence McKenna

This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all…

— 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

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

— Terence McKenna

Just because you have a nut theory it doesn't mean that you agree with other nut theories. In fact, it often makes…

— 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

The movement of a single atom from one known position to another known position changes an experience from nothing to overwhelming. This…

— Terence McKenna

Psilocybin, tryptamine, is in my opinion the means to eliminating the future by becoming cognizant of the architecture of eternity, which is…

— Terence McKenna

The way out then is personal responsibility, new operating systems downloaded from outside of culture, which means from the deeper wisdom of…

— 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

Where psychedelics comes together with that is that it's going to require a transformation of human language and understanding to stop the…

— Terence McKenna

What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should…

— Terence McKenna

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 mind is more powerful than any imaginable particle accelerator, more sensitive than any radio receiver or the largest optical telescope, more…

— Terence McKenna

A long long time ago I took an oath to tell all secrets that came my way. Don't tell me a secret,…

— 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

The war on drugs was never meant to be won. Instead, it will be prolonged as long as possible in order to…

— 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

When your time is turned into money, the felt presence of immediate experience is analogous to being enslaved. I mean, let's be…

— Terence McKenna

Information is just simply bootstrapping itself to higher and higher levels of self-reflection and self-coordination using whatever means are necessary.

— Terence McKenna

Ayahuasca loves to take prideful people and rub their nose in it. I mean it can make you beg for mercy like…

— Terence McKenna

I'm not an abuser. It takes me a long time to assimilate each experience. And I never have lost my respect for…

— Terence McKenna

The things I encounter that I call elves or gnomes, it's just a gloss. I mean, they're small, and they have the…

— Terence McKenna

And I don't mean this metaphorically. I want to be taken seriously as proposing that the ennui of modernity is the consequence…

— Terence McKenna

Technique to me is a kind of a ... I'm reluctant to talk about it because it seems so obvious to me…

— Terence McKenna