“It's getting funnier because everybody's categories are disintegrating, and the cult of political correctness dictates that we never point out that other people don't make sense.” PeoplePoliticalMake SenseCategoriesCultPolitical CorrectnessCorrectness Author:Terence McKenna
“People without plants are in a state of perpetual neurosis, a state of existential wanting.” PeopleStatesPlantPerpetualExistentialNeurosis Author:Terence McKenna
“By manipulating queuing, by manipulating expectation, you can lead people to a fundamental confrontation, not only with themselves, but with the Other.” PeopleExpectationsFundamentalsConfrontation Author:Terence McKenna
“What people notice about [when they are on] LSD is either what's right or wrong with themselves or how freaky the world is.” PeopleWorldLsdFreaky Author:Terence McKenna
“The psychedelic sets you at the beginning of the path, and then people do all kinds of things with it.” PeopleKindPathAll KindsPsychedelic Author:Terence McKenna
“I really think there is a very large distinction between synthetic and naturally occurring drugs. ... I think that these plants 'take people' as much as people take the plants. ... When you take one of these ancient, ancient hallucinogens you are locking in to the morphogenetic fields of all the people who ever took it.” PeopleThinkingFieldsDrugPlantAncientDistinctionSyntheticHallucinogens Author:Terence McKenna
“It puts people who are into this psychedelic thing in an entirely different stance from all other spiritual seekers, because all other spiritual seekers are furiously seeking. Psychedelic people are holding it back with all their power, because they are in the presence of the mystery. And then the trick is to get a spigot on it so that it can be turned on and off rather than coming at you like a tidal wave a mile high and twenty miles wide.” PeopleDifferentSpiritualMysteryTwentiesWaveSeekingWideMilesTricksSeekersPsychedelicStanceAnd OffTidal Waves Author:Terence McKenna
“I can't think of a society on Earth where people don't take drugs that any of us would want anything to do with.” PeopleThinkingWantI CanEarthDrug Author:Terence McKenna
“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.” PeopleIfsMindHumansKindEndsProblemRealityLightLostHeavenSidesTasksSpreadEmpoweringHuman MindRetiringContinentsTunnelsLight At The End Of The TunnelEnd Of The TunnelBack SideSeventh Heaven Author:Terence McKenna
“What civilization is, is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other's shoulders and kicking each other's teeth in. It's not a pleasant situation.” PeopleTryingCultureSituationCivilizationStandingBillionsShouldersTeethPleasantKickingMind BlowingBlowing It Author:Terence McKenna
“Drugs induce paranoia and psychosis in people who have never taken any.” PeopleTakenDrugMarijuanaParanoiaCannabisPsychosis Author:Terence McKenna
“The other night I searched (the Web) for 'self-transforming elf machines.' There were 36 hits! It surprised me. I sort of use the search engine like an oracle. I've used the phrase for DMT, 'Arabian hyperspace.' So I thought of this, and then I searched it, 'Arabian hyperspace,' in quotes. And it took me right to a transcript of the talk in which I'd said the thing! You can find your own mind on the Internet. I'm very grateful to the people who type up my talks and then post them at their websites.” PeopleMindSaidSelfUseUsedNightTypeInternetMachinesGratefulPostsPhrasesEnginesTransformingWebsiteOraclesSearch EngineArabianDmt Author:Terence McKenna
“I'm not trying to sign people up to a creed, I'm much more interested in the people that disagree. These ideas are powerful but this isn't mysticism in the ordinary sense to be protected by mumblings about faith and all that. This is the real thing.” PeopleTryingIdeasRealPowerfulOrdinaryMysticismDisagreeProtectedCreedsReal Things Author:Terence McKenna
“People have a right to get stoned. They have a right to think and explore their own minds. This is as intimate a part of their being as their sexuality. Any culture which mitigates that is clearly afraid of a full and fair and open dialogue about what reality is and what real human values ought to be.” PeopleThinkingMindHumansRealRealityValuesCultureOughtFairsSexualityDialogueIntimateHuman ValuesReal Human Author:Terence McKenna
“Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.” PeopleLifeInspirationalRealityLanguageInspirational LifeDemandNeuroticClosureInfantile Author:Terence McKenna
“Culture is a perversion. It fetishizes objects, creates consumer mania, it preaches endless forms of false happiness, endless forms of false understanding in the form of squirrelly religions and silly cults. It invites people to diminish themselves and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines.” PeopleMindFormCultureUnderstandingObjectsMachinesSillyEndlessConsumersInvitesCultDiminishPerversionMind BlowingManiaBlowing ItFalse Happiness Author:Terence McKenna
