Terence McKenna (Terence Kemp McKenna) Quotes

Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.

Terence McKenna

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• If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • You
  • Mom
  • Lucky

• Fame and fortune are as hard to find as a lightning strike.

  

  P. N. Elrod
  • Find
  • Fame
  • Fortune

• I imagine there are a lot of people who will never be able to accept me because they feel I've let them down, but I am a different person, and most people have welcomed me back in that spirit.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Different
  • Accept

• I've been told by doctors and surgeons that I have the energy of ten men who have normal jobs.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Men
  • Energy
  • Normal

• I've seen some remarkable games, but never anything like that.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Games

• Begin with the possible; begin with one step.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff
  • Steps

• Experience is the mother of custom.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Experience
  • Mother
  • Custom

• I had a really intense flying dream most of my childhood into my teens. I would go out at night and fly all over the city and I could facilitate other people to fly with me.

  

  Douglas Glenn Colvin Ramones
  • People
  • Dream
  • Childhood

• Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry.

  

  George Eliot
  • Fish
  • Fry

• No person is important enough to make me angry.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Important
  • Person
  • Angry

• A lot of people have been overexposed. Where people are fed up. I pray that that never happens with me.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • People
  • Pray
  • Fed Up

• Remember that the Unification Church rose, not in freedom, but from a prison, the pit of suffering.

  

  Sun Myung Moon
  • Remember
  • Church
  • Suffering

• The foxglove, with it's stately bells Of purple, shall adorn thy dells.

  

  David Macbeth Moir
  • Purple
  • Bells
  • Adorn

• The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

  

  Jeff Bezos
  • Human Brain
  • Pattern-matching machine

• I know my boundaries. I know the limits to the car.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • Car
  • Limits
  • Boundaries

• Blackness is an ocean, a universe, a possibility that can never be exhausted. And so we have to constantly reaffirm the necessity of excavation, of archiving and curating, but also exploring, and understanding afresh and learning for the first time what it is that we need to know, and what the limits and boundaries are, and what the themes and preoccupations should be, and what the redemptive character of that erudition is. I find myself in the exciting position of doing all that, and at the same time having the obligation to explain to white people what the deal is.

  

  Michael Eric Dyson
  • People
  • Character
  • Understanding

• Certainly neo-Platonism, Plotinus and Porphyry and that school are psychedelic philosophers. Their idea of an ascending hierarchy of more and more rarefied states is a sophisticated presentation of the shamanic cosmology, which is the cosmology that one experientially discovers when they involve themselves with psychedelics.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • School
  • Philosopher
  • Psychedelic

• Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Boundaries
  • Psychedelic
  • Compounds