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 Copy Share Image
Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We have to recognize that the world is not something sculptured and finished, which we as perceivers walk through like patrons in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This rising global humanism is, in fact, the rising into consciousness of a tribal god similar to the kind of tribal god that functioned in these pre-Hellenic societies. — Terence McKenna Copy Share
No more do we create cultural artifacts that are simply our furniture, but now it's our thoughts, our values, are embodied in… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
You are the cutting edge of a thirteen billion year old process of defining novelty. Your acts matter. Your thoughts matter. Your… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of so much power that we now must understand what we are. We cannot travel much further with the definitions of man that we inherit from the Judeo-Christian tradition. We need to truly explore the problem of consciousness. — Terence McKenna Copy Share
Niagaras of beauty are flowing by untapped by ordinary consciousness. . . . Would that we could send robots who could film… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think with the work we do with these drugs we are the earliest pioneers in what over the next 100 years… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I do not think that the government, under the guise of some phony, alarmist, pseudo-scientific rhetoric, should attempt to control the evolution of consciousness. After all, if these things truly are consciousness-expanding, it doesn't take too much intelligence to realize that it is the absence of consciousness that is causing our flirtation with extinction and planetary disaster. — Terence McKenna Copy Share
“Like the octopi, our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. These are the two things that the psychedelics attack. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
To contact the cosmic giggle, to have the flow of casuistry begin to give off synchronistic ripples, whitecaps in the billows of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while plants hold fast. Plants live in a dimension characterised by solid state, the fixed and the enduring. If there is movement in the consciousness of plants then it must be the movement of spirit and attention in the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
“It was warm and salty, chalky and bittersweet. It tasted like the blood of some old, old thing. I tried not to think about how much at the mercy of these strange people I now was. But in fact my courage was failing. Both Dona Catalina and the guide's mocking eyes had slowly gone cold and mantislike. A wave of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
History was an incredibly damaging experience, and now it's over . . . in a sense. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the future - we are going hyper-spatial; we are claiming a whole new dimension for biology that it never claimed before. We are actually becoming a fourth-dimensional kind of creature. Our future is somehow with us, as… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
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… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What is happening here is we are living past the age, by the millions, living past the age where cultural values make any sense… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
And what is the primary datum? It's the felt presence of immediate experience. In other words, being here now is the primary datum. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Every step into freedom contains within it the potential for greater bondage. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is the message of your life and my life - it’s that nothing lasts. Heraclitus said it: Panta Rhei. All flows, nothing lasts. Not your enemies, not your fortune, not who you sleep with at night, not the books, not the house in Saint-Tropez, not even the children - nothing lasts. To the degree that you avert your gaze… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature as the central metaphor that we want to work out from. Because I think literature occupies the same relationship to life that life occupies to death. A book is life with one dimension pulled out of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share
Knowledge, or verbal facility, is no proof that you know what you're talking about. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
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