“Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn your back on a culture that has gone sterile and dead, and get with the programme of a living world and a re-empowerment of the imagination.” WorldLightTurnsCultureImaginationKnownSunGonePathEmpowermentToolsClaimsProgrammes Author:Terence McKenna
“A global society is coming into being, a global society that is made out of information that was not intended to be ours, but is ours, by the mistaken invention of computers and the printing press, information is power, and information has spilled by the clumsy hands of the dominator culture so that the information is everywhere, never before has the situation been so fluid, we might be able to finally have a crack at this” MadeHandsMightAbleCultureSituationInformationComputerPressesInventionCracksMistakenFluidPrintingClumsyPrinting PressInformation Is Power Author:Terence McKenna
“Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort, and ignore. That is that nature is some kind of minded entity. That nature is not simply the random flight of atoms through electromagnetic fields. Nature is not the empty, despiritualized , lumpen matter that we inherit from modern physics. But it is instead a kind of intelligence, a kind of mind.” MindKindMatterCultureModernFieldsDiscoveryEmptyInsightPhysicsFlightAtomsEntityModern Physics Author:Terence McKenna
“Our culture difinitely takes an egocentric dominator view. The fear of the psychedelic experience is quite literally the fear of losing control. Dominator types today don't understand that it's not important to maintain control if you are not in control in the first place.” IfsFirstsImportantTodayCultureViewsTypeLosingPsychedelicEgocentricPsychedelic ExperienceLosing Control Book:Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness Source: Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness
“It is no coincidence that a rebirth of psychedelic use is occuring as we acquire the technological capability to leave the planet. The mushroom visions and the transformation of the human image precipitated by space exploration are spun together. Nothing less is happening than the emergence of a new human order. A telepathic, humane, universalist kind of human culture is emerging that will make everything that preceded it appear like the stone age.” HumansKindUseAgeTogetherOrderCultureSpaceVisionPlanetsHappeningsStonesTransformationAcquireExplorationCapabilityTechnologicalCoincidenceRebirthHumaneEmergingPsychedelicSpace ExplorationMushroomsEmergenceSpunStone Age Author:Terence McKenna
“The current operating system [culture] is flawed. It actually has bugs in it that generate contradictions. We're cutting the earth from beneath our own feet. We're poisoning the atmosphere that we breathe. This is not intelligent behaviour. This is a culture with a bug in its operating system that's making it produce erratic, dysfunctional, malfunctional behaviour. Time to call a tech! And who are the techs? The shamans are the techs.” EarthCultureCuttingFeetProduceIntelligentCurrentsBreatheAtmosphereProgrammingContradictionBehaviourBugsFlawedPoisoningOperating SystemsErratic Author:Terence McKenna
“The major adventure is to claim your authentic, true being, which is not culturally given to you. The culture will not explain to you how to be a real human being. It will tell you how to be banker, politician, Indian chief, masseuses, actress, whatever, but it will not give you true being.” GivingHumansRealCultureGivenHuman BeingsAdventurePoliticianMajorsClaimsActressesChiefsIndianBankersReal HumanIndian Chief Author:Terence McKenna