Nothing is now unconscious if your data-search commands are powerful enough. Terence McKenna Dark as the hour may appear, we exist in a dimension of greater opportunity, greater freedom, greater possibility than has ever been. Terence McKenna Human history is the boiling of the pond surface of ordinary biology. - Terence McKenna Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you? Terence McKenna Culture is the effort to hold back the mystery, and replace it with a mythology. Terence McKenna I think our entire culture is headed for being enveloped in a cognitive hallucination where our real wishes will be fulfilled. Terence McKenna We have outlived this embryo and now its time for the great business of becoming citizens of the galaxy and at home with our own heart. Terence McKenna The Net is a net for catching the alien mind. Its already within us, but we must call it forth into a dimension of potential dialogue. Terence McKenna The task of discerning shit from Shinola looms very large at the end of history. -Terence McKenna Having seen the limitations of science, we have discovered we are in a small row boat in a dark ocean, being swept we know not where. Terence McKenna There is much of language in nature ... all of nature is a linguistic enterprise .. DNA is essentially a symbolic system.. Terence McKenna Culture is the mind unperturbed. Terence McKenna No one knows enough to worry. Terence Mckenna Culture is a cult. Terence McKenna When you know the words the world is made of, you can make of it what you will. Terence Mckenna. “I think the psychedelic experience is the only authentic source of the reliable contact with the numinous” - Terence McKenna Plants are the missing link in the search to understand the human mind and its place in nature. Terence McKenna Eventually the right to determine our own food and drug preferences will be seen as a natural consequence of human dignity. Terence McKenna The further you go, the weirder it gets. ~ Terence McKenna Television induces a trance state in the viewer that is the necessary precondition for brainwashing. Terence Mckenna If the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed - Terence McKenna The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation — Terence McKenna If youre not the hero of your own novel, then what kind of novel is it? You need to do some heavy editing. Terence McKenna What is this making the word into flesh? And does it not imply that eventually the flesh will become word? Terence McKenna Well, I say then if science gets one free miracle (the big bang) then everybody gets one free miracle. Terence McKenna Science says, give us one free miracle (the big bang) and well roll from that point forward, from the birth of time to the crack of doom. Terence McKenna Whatever lies behind the UFO mystery, it is a force which can literally do anything. It is not to be caught in the rational net. Terence McKenna The problem is we have to transcend cultural languages & fall into phase w/ the communication systems that nature has placed all around us. Terence McKenna Find the others. Terence McKenna Light is composed of photons, which have no antiparticle. This means that there is no dualism in the world of light. - Terence McKenna This is how magic is done: by hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering its a feather bed. Terence McKenna The idea that the human mind should interpose itself between society and chaos is just an illusion of control freaks. Terence McKenna The product the computer industry is dealing is the self. Arent you interested in buying into the self? Its the ultimate product. (1987) Terence McKenna Every object that is created is an effort to approximate the felt presence of the transcendental object at the end at time. Terence McKenna You dont want to become so open-minded that the wind can whistle between your ears. ~ Terence McKenna If you dont at least occasionally contradict yourself, your position isnt (nearly) complex enough... ~Terence McKenna Unexamined cultural values & limitations of language have made us unwitting prisoners of our own assumptions. Terence Mckenna The purpose of the Internet will be to catch the alien mind. It will be coded by human fingers, but it will be truly alien. Terence McKenna People have noticed the time-is-speeding-up phenomena, but give credit to science or media. Im saying its built into the laws of physics. Terence McKenna Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity 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 My technique is don’t believe anything. If you believe in something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite. Terence McKenna The mystery is in the body and the way the body works itself into nature. Terence McKenna Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet Terence McKenna In probing the Other we shall always come back with images of ourselves. In probing ourselves we shall return with images of the Other. Terence McKenna Everybody finds a certain level of failure and calls it success. Terence McKenna Civilization is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each others shoulders and kicking each others teeth in. Terence McKenna Nature is not our enemy, to be raped and conquered. Nature is ourselves, to be cherished and explored. - Terence McKenna The fact that an idea is preposterous has never held it back from making zealous converts. -Terence McKenna Science is not some meta-theory at whose feet every point of view need be laid to have the hand of science announce thumbs up or thumbs down Terence McKenna Understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding that will be useful to you is your own. Terence McKenna The world is not something we as perceivers walk through like patrons in a museum; its something we make through the act of perception. Terence McKenna The fact that we rely on an intellectual method 2000 years old almost precludes our understanding of anything interesting. Terence McKenna People are so alienated from their own soul that when they meet their soul they think it comes from another star system.” Terence McKenna If the UFO phenomenon is something that is coming from us, then what is it, and what is it for?” Terence McKenna Matter is not lacking in magic, matter is magic. Terence McKenna Nothing lasts but nothing is lost. Terence McKenna What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance. - Terence McKenna I’ve seen things that violated the laws of physics. I believe the laws of physics can be violated. Terence McKenna “Probe the edges. Terence McKenna We are living inside a 90 percent 19th-century world-view. Terence McKenna The real tension is not between matter and spirit, or time and space, the real tension is between information and nonsense. Terence McKenna The mind is not a form of intelligence. The mind is the theater in which intelligence is manifested. Don’t confuse the garage with the car. Terence McKenna The way you stretch the envelope of culture is by creating language. Terence McKenna Culture cannot evolve any faster than its language, because what cannot be said cannot be done. What cannot be said cannot be put in place. Terence McKenna The crazy contradictory patchwork of profane technoconsumerist postmagluanist electronic preapocalyptic existence ~ Terence Mckenna The problem is not to find the answer, its to face the answer -Terence Mckenna If you keep yourself as the final arbiter you will be less susceptible to infection by cultural illusion -Terence Mckenna The monkey body has carried us to this moment of release, but we are coming more and more to exist in a world made by the human imagination. Terence McKenna Nature, both in whole and in many parts, is magically self-reflecting and aware. Terence McKenna The pro-psychedelic plant position is an anti-drug position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined and obsessive behavior Terence McKenna ...I mean, a bug walking across the ground moved me to tears. ~ Terence McKenna.. Half the time you think your thinking you’re actually listening -Terence Mckenna We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects. -Terence Mckenna Culture is just a mass hallucination. - Terence Mckenna Salvation is an act of cognitive apprehension. -Terence McKenna
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