Thinking Quotes by Terence McKenna

Thinkers are not a welcome addition to most social situations.

— Terence McKenna

I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do…

— Terence McKenna

Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening

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The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.

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I think that understanding man's place in nature is going to require integration of the psychedelic experience.

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

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Our destiny is to become what we think, to have our thoughts become our bodies and our bodies become our thoughts.

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Ultimately, I think, what the psychedelic experience may be is a higher topological manifold of temporality.

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Think about our dilemma on this planet. If the expansion of consciousness does not loom large in the human future, what kind…

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

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I think that the whole thing, the crux of the whole psychedelic issue, is that it accentuates personal responsibility by making people…

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I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions.

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I discovered early in life a stunning truth that's made my life very complicated in its wake, but that I still think…

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I really think that the psychedelic realm is the realm of ideas, and that ideas which change the world come first from…

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I think the cybernetic matrix is a tremendous tool for feminizing, and radicalizing, and psychedelicizing the social matrix. I see computers as…

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I started out in psychedelic drugs, and people said it was a flight from reality. It still is a flight from reality,…

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If you sit down with a person, or a watermelon for that matter, when you're stoned and sing into it, the quality…

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What is happening, I think, it's really bigger than psychedelics, it's bigger than human evolution. We are not making the waves in…

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I really think there is a very large distinction between synthetic and naturally occurring drugs. ... I think that these plants 'take…

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

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I don't think that mass drug taking is a good idea. But I think that we must have a deputized minority, a…

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Think about this for a moment, we grow so inured to these religious forms, think about the notion of instituting at the…

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The smart people who are straight are involved in simply the media management of what has turned into a slow apocalypse, spreading…

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I think there's a shamanic temperament, which is a person who craves knowledge, knowledge in the Greek sense of gnosis. In other…

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

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

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I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually…

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But a mature humanity could get into a place where we no longer required these metaphysical spankings from messiahs and flying saucers…

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Sometime in the last 50,000 years, before 12,000 years ago, a kind of paradise came into existence. A situation in which men…

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Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture. Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.

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I think really what unites psychedelic people is the faith in the power of the imagination.

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I think what we have to do is convince people that matter is tacky.

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I think psychedelics are sort of like doing calisthenics in preparation for the marathon at the end of time.

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To date, the enterprise of thinking has moved us radically away from understanding anything.

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

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I think that a lot of people are making a lot of money spreading anxiety. Anxiety sells.

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

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What I think is going on is that probably language was entertainment long before it was meaning. It's a kind of tuneless…

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I think the world is growing more psychedelic every day. I'm completely hopeful. . . . This is how it should be.…

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The social consequence of the psychedelic experience is clear thinking -which trickles down as clear speech. Empowered speech.

— Terence McKenna