Terence McKenna Quotes
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This is the key. If you get into deep water with these substances, this is true of psilocybin as well, you don't want to clench, you don't want to assume the fetal position and stop breathing. You want to sit up straight and breathe, and sing, and sing it back, and it will step back. You can take control of your situation ... most of the time.
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Alcoholism isn't a disease. It's a failure of self-image.
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The race isn't to the swift, it's to the thoughtful.
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Without sounding too cliché, the Internet really is the birth of some kind of global mind.
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The war on drugs was never meant to be won. Instead, it will be prolonged as long as possible in order to allow various intelligence operations to wring the last few hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit profits from the global drug scam; then defeat will have to be declared. "Defeat" will mean, as it did in the case of the Vietnam War, that the media will correctly portray the true dimensions of the situation and the real players, and that public revulsion at the culpability, stupidity and venality of the Establishment's role will force a policy review.
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To me it begins and ends with these psychedelic substances. The synergy of the psilocybin in the hominid diet brought us out of the animal mind and into the world of articulated speech and imagination.
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If you actually look at the etymology of the word 'hallucination', what it's come to mean in English is a delusion. But what it really means in the original language is to wander in the mind. That's the meaning of 'hallucination', to wander in the mind.
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Culture is the greatest barrier to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency.
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There’s light at the end of the tunnel. The problem is that tunnel is in the back of your mind. And if you don’t go to the back side of your mind you will never see the light at the end of the tunnel. And once you see it, then the task becomes to empower it in yourself and other people. Spread it as a reality. God did not retire to the seventh heaven, God is some kind of lost continent IN the human mind.
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Psychedelic experiences and dreams are chemical cousins; they are only different in degree.
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If reality is code, then it can be hacked in some way that we had not suspected before.
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It is not easy to measure the ocean, but we can be measured by it, confront it, and be in it.
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And science, when it examines psychedelics, as it will and must, is going to discover a revolution, I believe, that will put all the previous revolutions in perspective.
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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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I believe that the place to search for extraterrestrials is in the psychic dimension.
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History is like self-reflection through the medium of language propelling itself into self-recognition.
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One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library.
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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 and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up.
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I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.
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If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.
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Psychedelics can carry you farther and faster than most people care to go. Once you get to psychedelics, it's no longer a matter of seeking the answer, you have found the answer. Now the issue changes dramatically, you must face the answer.
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We cannot evolve faster than our language. The edge of being is the edge of meaning, and somehow we have to push the edge of meaning. We have to extend it.
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You know what, I'm stoned, and I'm proud.
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Actually, the highest form of human organization is not realized in the democratic individual. It is realized in a dimension none of us have ever penetrated, which is the mind of the species, which is actually the hand at the tiller of history. . . . It is an organized entelechy of some sort, and human history is its signature on the primates.