Way Quotes by Terence McKenna

One way of assessing the toxicity of a drug is how do you feel the next day?

— Terence McKenna

Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.

— Terence McKenna

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

— Terence McKenna

The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature.

— Terence McKenna

If reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before.

— Terence McKenna

History is anomalous, and there is no way to get used to it.

— 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

What history is, essentially, is a careening, out-of-control effort to find our way back to this state of primordial balance.

— Terence McKenna

It seems to me that it is psyche in a way that has become occluded by the perverse development of language.

— Terence McKenna

I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.

— Terence McKenna

Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.

— Terence McKenna

The way you understand and investigate time is by moving inward, into metabolism. The human body is a knot in time.

— Terence McKenna

In the way that the 15th Century discovered the New World, the 20th Century discovered the parallel continuum.

— Terence McKenna

Even a billion people is too much. There's no way back to the simplicity we once knew, but there may be a…

— Terence McKenna

If I can paraphrase Teilhard de Chardin for a moment, he said, or I will paraphrase in this way, 'When the human…

— Terence McKenna

Inside the boundaries of the old paradigm there's no hope, there's no way out of the box of capitalism, monogamy, consumer fetishism,…

— Terence McKenna

This is what magic is. It's being able to speak in a voice which makes things happen, being able to speak in…

— Terence McKenna

The shaman is a very peculiar figure. He is critical to the functioning of the psychological and social life of his community,…

— Terence McKenna

A history-stopping archetype is being released into the skies of this planet, and if we are not careful it will halt all…

— Terence McKenna

The artist’s task is to save the soul of mankind; and anything less is a dithering while Rome burns. Because of the…

— Terence McKenna

I believe that what makes the psychedelic experience so central is that it is a connection into a larger modality of organization…

— Terence McKenna

Spaceflight is nothing less than the exterior metaphor for the shamanic voyage. In other words, in our terms, the hallucinogenic experience. This…

— Terence McKenna

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

— 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 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human…

— 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

The Internet is light at the end of the tunnel. I don't care if it's being used to peddle pornography, I don't…

— Terence McKenna

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

— 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

The world is mental in some way that we do not yet understand, but that which we're edging toward understanding. And the…

— Terence McKenna

Everything appears to me to be authored, in some strange way. And I wonder if this is not the spreading assumption of…

— 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 intellectual tension that seems to work its way through this society almost like fat through meat is the tension between scientific…

— 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

It's possible to see the whole human growth movement of the 1970s as a wish to continue the inward quest without having…

— 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