World Quotes by Terence McKenna

Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.

— Terence McKenna

Matter is simply a concept. The world is made of language.

— Terence McKenna

Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness

— Terence McKenna

Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas

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It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul…

— Terence McKenna

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

— Terence McKenna

But what I really am interested in is not the end of the world but everything which precedes it.

— Terence McKenna

The world is not made of anti-mu mesons, quarks, and photons, and electromagnetic fields. Reality is made of words.

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The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words, and that if you know the words that the…

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What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world…

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Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we…

— Terence McKenna

Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.

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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

You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new…

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Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream…

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And what is shamanism but philosophy with a hands-on attitude. Philosophy not made around the camp fire, but philosophy based on the…

— Terence McKenna

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

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We were essentially torn from the Gaian womb, thrust into the birth canal of history, and expelled sometime around the fall of…

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

— Terence McKenna

I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off. You either love them or you hate them, and…

— Terence McKenna

Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream…

— Terence McKenna

There is no dualism in the world of light. The conventions of relativity say that time slows down as one approaches the…

— Terence McKenna

And yet my, not only my faith, but my experience has led me to believe that the world is not a construction…

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We are told No, you're unimportant, you're peripheral - get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then…

— Terence McKenna

DMT is a reliable method for crossing in to a dimension that human beings have debated the existence of for 50.000 years.…

— Terence McKenna

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

— 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

To contact the cosmic giggle, to have the flow of casuistry begin to give off synchronistic ripples, whitecaps in the billows of…

— Terence McKenna

For me, what all these years of psychedelic taking came to was a new model of how reality works, a new model…

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If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.

— Terence McKenna

I think what electronic culture permits is incredible diversity, and what the print-created world demanded and created was tremendous suppression of diversity.

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And psychedelics now, as we de-condition ourselves from the post-medieval world, they are present to hand as tools.

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You may miss the end of the world, but you definitely are going to have a front row seat for the end…

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DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word,…

— Terence McKenna

The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a…

— Terence McKenna

It's a product of the fractal laws that govern the world at an informational level. There is no deeper truth.

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Because this is the world that science built, with the henchmen of capitalism and Christianity.

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The tension in the world is the tension between the ego and the feminine, not between the masculine and the feminine.

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The world could be anything, you know, It could be a solid state matrix of some sort. It could be an illusion.…

— Terence McKenna

The world is not an unsolved problem for scientists or sociologists. The world is a living mystery.

— Terence McKenna