Real Quotes by Terence McKenna

The only real experience that counts, is your own.

— Terence McKenna

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

— Terence McKenna

The real truth is splintered and spread throughout time.

— Terence McKenna

The real nature of our predicament is completely opaque to us.

— Terence McKenna

Once you have the psychedelic tool in hand then some real choices have to be made.

— Terence McKenna

The real justification for psychedelics is that they feed new data into your model.

— 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

Ideologies are cultural memes. They are the most confining of the cultural memes. That's where culture gets real ugly. It is when…

— Terence McKenna

What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime.

— Terence McKenna

I believe in extraterrestrials, but I believe that real extraterrestrials are so peculiar that the job is to recognize them.

— Terence McKenna

The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know…

— Terence McKenna

My hope is that I may bear witness to the fact that there is a great mystery calling to us all, beckoning…

— Terence McKenna

I think institutions will inevitably substitute a rite or a ritual for the authentic, for the real McCoy, because then priests can…

— Terence McKenna

We can understand first of all that what is happening in the world of becoming, the world we all experience as beings,…

— Terence McKenna

Your memories are eroding away. The futures you anticipate, will mostly not come to pass, and the real richness is in the…

— Terence McKenna

We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of…

— Terence McKenna

What we really are is a community of mind, knitted together by codes and symbols, intuitions, aspirations, histories, hopes - the invisible…

— Terence McKenna

Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are…

— Terence McKenna

The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain…

— Terence McKenna

One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You…

— 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

But technology is the real skin of our species. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last five hundred years, is…

— 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

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

— Terence McKenna

The real truth that dare not speak itself, is that no one is in control, absolutely no one... Nobody is in control.…

— Terence McKenna

I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are…

— Terence McKenna