Terence McKenna Quotes

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• We've painted ourselves into a corner where the only choice is real nightmare - triage, epidemic disease, famine, fascism, the collapse of human rights -…
• Death is the black hole of biology. It's an event horizon, and once you go over that event horizon, no information can be passed back…
• Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.
• There is an area of the mind that could be called unsane, beyond sanity, and yet not insane. Think of a circle with a fine…
• We're not dropping out here, we're infiltrating and taking over.
• Psychedelics are probably responsible for every aspect of human evolution apart from the decline in bodyhair.
• I think the real test of psychedelics is what you do with them when you're not on them, what kind of culture you build, what…
• LSD burst over the dreary domain of the constipated bourgeoisie like the angelic herald of a new psychedelic millennium. We have never been the same…
• Nature is not mute, it is a man who is deaf.
• We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us.
• History is rooted in the future
• What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should be put aside....…
• You know what, I'm stoned, and I'm proud.
• The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information
• So you know what we have to do is stop looking for leadership from the top, because the least among us make their way into…
• The other night I searched (the Web) for 'self-transforming elf machines.' There were 36 hits! It surprised me. I sort of use the search engine…
• I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are powerful but this…
• History is the in-rushing toward what the Buddhists call the realm of the densely packed, a transformational realm where the opposites are unified.
• We have to claim anarchy and realize that systems have a life of their own that is anti-humanist. There is definitely an anti-humanist tendency in…
• We have outlived this embryo, this human cradle, and now it's time to be up and about the great business of becoming citizens of the…

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