Terence McKenna Quotes
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Ayahuasca loves to take prideful people and rub their nose in it. I mean it can make you beg for mercy like nothing. You have to really approach it humbly.
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What WE represent is the nexus of concrescent novelty that has been moving itself together, complexifying itself, folding itself in upon itself for billions and billions of years. There is, so far as we know, nothing more advanced than what is sitting behind your eyes. The human neocortex is the most densely ramified complexified structure in the known universe.
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We are like coral animals embedded in a technological reef of extruded psychic objects...All our tool-making implies our belief in an ultimate tool.
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This is what I believe: That we are not pushed from behind by the casual unfolding of historical necessity, but that we are in the grip of an attractor of some sort, which lies ahead of us in time.
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If the world is made of language, then you can hack it in the sense that you can hack code.
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This is in fact what shamanism is all about, what the end of history is all about, what psychedelic drugs are all about, we are edge-walking on an ontological transformation of what it means to be human.
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We are all cells of a much larger body, and like the cells of our own body it is hard for us to glimpse the whole pattern of the whole of what is happening, and yet we can sense that there is a purpose, and there is a pattern.
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Science works its miracles by turning its enterprise into a kind of parlor game confined to the category matter and energy.
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Science does not deal with subjective experience... Well that's too bad because that is all any of us ever have.
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I think there is a global commonality of understanding coming into being. And it is not necessarily fostered by institutions.
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It is true that when you smoke DMT, for example, at a sufficiently high and prepared dose, you get elves, everybody does. All you need do, is inhale deeply three times, and you know... You want contact? You want elves? You want alien contact? You'll have that!
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The question is being asked, 'Are we alone?' And though we now focus on that question we need to think beyond that to what if we're not alone? Then what becomes the next imperative question?
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We are alienated, so alienated that the self must disguise itself as an extraterrestrial in order not to alarm us with the truly bizarre dimensions that it encompasses.
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We have been to the moon, we have charted the depths of the ocean and the heart of the atom, but we have a fear of looking inward to ourselves because we sense that is where all the contradictions flow together.
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Language, thought, analysis, art, dance, poetry, mythmaking: these are the things that point the way toward the realm of the eschaton.
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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.
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Our assumptions are the edges of our worlds.
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It seems to me that right under the surface of human neurological organization is a mode shift of some sort that would make language beholdable.
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The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.
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Ninety percent of the difficulty in your intellectual life would never have happened if you just had better taste.
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Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.
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We can't sell short the spiritual power of cannabis, especially when eaten.
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It's the impossible become possible and yet remaining impossible.
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The Internet is the global brain, the cyberspacially connected, telepathic, collective domain that we've all been hungering for.