Psychology Quotes by Terence McKenna

The mind is the cutting edge of the evolving event system.

— Terence McKenna

The mind is a far bigger domain than we ever imagined.

— Terence McKenna

Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

— Terence McKenna

The most beautiful things in the universe are inside the human mind.

— Terence McKenna

Mind conjures miracles out of time.

— Terence McKenna

That's the core puzzling experience, when you meet the Other organized as a speaking mind.

— Terence McKenna

Without sounding too cliche, the Internet really is the birth of global mind.

— Terence McKenna

The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern…

— Terence McKenna

The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.

— Terence McKenna

The western mind, because of it's unique history, is the most sensitive mind to the impact of psychedelics.

— Terence McKenna

There's something in the Western mind that gets very nervous when you try to talk about the bedrock of ontology.

— Terence McKenna

It is slowly becoming understood that the modality of being is the modality of mind.

— Terence McKenna

The leading edge of reality is mind, and mind is the primary substratum of being.

— Terence McKenna

“Reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked…

— 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

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 psychedelic experience is not a journey into the human unconscious, or into the ghost bards of our human civilization. It's a…

— Terence McKenna

The Gaian mind is what were calling the psychedelic experience. Its an experience of the living fact of the entelechy of the…

— Terence McKenna

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

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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out…

— Terence McKenna

The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human…

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We are reaping the fruits of ten thousand, fifty thousand years of sowing of the fields of mind. And it is being…

— Terence McKenna

Cultivate an ongoing stream of self-description, telling yourself what is happening. Get used to the idea that mind can penetrate the immediate…

— Terence McKenna

I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture…

— Terence McKenna

To my mind this makes psychedelics central to any political reconstruction, because these are the only force in nature that actually dissolve…

— Terence McKenna

People have a right to get stoned. They have a right to think and explore their own minds. This is as intimate…

— 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

We are told 'no', we're unimportant, we're peripheral. 'Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get a that.' And then…

— Terence McKenna

If psychedelics are exopheromones that dissolve the dominant ego, then they are also enzymes that synergize the human imagination and empower language.…

— Terence McKenna

“My faith is with technology and with psychedelics. Politics aren't going to take us much further. We're awakening as a planet to…

— Terence McKenna

I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their…

— Terence McKenna

Clearly, what is happening, I think, is there is a kind of global emergence of a new mental order.

— Terence McKenna

What we need to change is our minds, that's the part that's doing us dirt and dragging us under. How can we…

— Terence McKenna

Television is, to my mind, the most insidious drug that the 20th Century has had to deal with.

— Terence McKenna

Without sounding too cliché, the Internet really is the birth of some kind of global mind.

— Terence McKenna

Who is to say what is real and what is not?'Real' is a distinction of a naïve mind...

— Terence McKenna

Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is…

— Terence McKenna

You are some kind of a mystery suspended between two eternities. And in that moment, when a mind looks out at a…

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What the psychedelic experience really is, is opening the doorway into a lost continent of the human mind, a continent that we…

— Terence McKenna

To my mind this is what shamanic training must really be, is mnemonic training. If you want to bring the stuff back…

— Terence McKenna